At 03:50 PM 1/19/2010, you wrote: >If I just used the #color, then how would the line be written in the CSS >where you wrote the color first then URL ("image.jpg'); > >I don't know how to change it. > >And, I still have an inkling that if all images failed, my content/typing >might be sitting on maroon--- am I correct? or wrong? Every time frontpage >opens my page, I look closely and it looks to me like maroon might be >loading as the page's main background. >If I'm right that it is loading red (if everything else failed) where do I >change that color in the CSS? How do I "shut off" everything in the CSS >just to see what the main page color will be? background: #515457 url('../images/gray-bg.jpg'); or background-color: #515457; You need to make sure that the background color that goes along with the image is the same share as the image so if you use a dark background image use a color that is close to it. If it is a light colored image then choose a light color or white. One way to check is to deliberately turn off images which is easy to do with the webdeveloper toolbar. Right now, if I turn off images on this page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/z_testing_css_2nd-try.htm everything is maroon which was the color of the original background you used when I first did the page for you. This is the style that controls the inner container with a background color added of white. Change to what you want. #inner { margin: 15px auto 15px auto; width: 99%; background: #ffffff url('wbeige_3rd.jpg');/*pinkish*/; padding: 10px; border: 2px ridge #999999; } The style sheet was commented so you should be able to see what controls what. pat