if anybody else wants to know how to do this too then heres what i ended up deciding on and worked perfect

open your site in vsd then on the new page where you type in the page name and id etc select the image you want

this will tile it across the entire page which was my problem in the first place

save the project then goto the webpage in the folder where you saved it if its new it will be the index.html

open that in notepad and go to where it says body styles and undernieth background - image ( your image )

place this

background-repeat:repeat-x;

then save

this makes it stretch across the whole screen

thanks to "paintbrush" for this idea i just had to swap y for x

Hiya Mark,

Are you aware of the consequences of altering the pages of your site outside of VSD? I'm thinking you're not. You really need to figure out how to do these things inside the program as that will now be lost anytime you reupload your site. VSD is not able to import any changes you've made so it will just overwrite whatever you have in VSD itself the next time you update and those changes you just made outside the program will not be there then.

Just an FYI

If you look at my example you maybe scratching your head as to how I can have a different background for that page but not any of the other pages since the background is a global setting that affects all the pages. I pretty much did what Mark is stating. Mine was a little more involved as I needed to get all the images that VSD created from me adding the various elements to the page. I grabbed the source code and adjusted all the links and the background code. I then deleted the page from my VSD list and added the one I tweaked to the root of my site then added a folder to put all the object images in. I only did this to show how the background ribbon header is achieved as I didn't want that look for my entire site. By doing it this way VSD will never over write the page because It doesn't have it in the list. If your into tweaking VSD pages the best thing to do is to create a separate project to design pages in then add these pages to the root of your site using the "Add Files" tool.

I noticed this last night

I don't own HTML editor yet but would that kind of change be possible there?

Also in future updates of vsd this could be a useful addition

As well as background have header and footer too

As for now I think I can edit the HTML at the s drive side ( not sure yet not by my laptop )

Thanks for the heads up tho guys

Like I said I'm a newbie :S

Hi Mark.
I would recommend getting the HTML editor to use along side VSD. I use both equally now. I used it in the ribbon header tweak but use it a lot to test examples that I post on my site to make sure their going to work in VSD.