I've read through the PDF tutorial that John Blain produced (much thanks), and I viewed the english tutorials that Brandon produced (again, much thanks), but the YouTube videos are for a previous version, and neither Brandon's videos or John's brochure truly cover what I'm attempting to accomplish.  I'll try to explain it the best I can, and hopefully the images will help make sense.

First, I'm trying to create a basic informational website for a tanning salon, but I haven't created a website since the early '90s when FrontPage was a thing, and I imagine some of the people in this forum weren't even born yet!  I'd like to insert a picture of a tropical beach as the background for the page but I have been unable to figure out how to do so and get the results I'm looking for.  I want the picture of the beach to fill the screen but not move when a visitor scrolls through the site.  I want the image to truly be in the background, so I toned it down to 50% transparency in the mock up.  I want it to essentially do exactly what the screen wallpaper does on a monitor or laptop screen.  I only downloaded OE two days ago, so I really haven't figured out what I'm doing yet, even after reading and watching tutorials.  When I think I understand, and try something, I screw it up, so I know I didn't really understand yet.  I tried to insert a very high resolution version of the image thinking I could just shrink it down, but I can't figure out how I can resize the image to fit the browser window, so I only see a very small portion of the entire image.  I tried inserting progressively smaller versions of the image hoping I could stretch one out, but that didn't work either and I got a tiling effect on the right side and bottom of the window (UGLY!).  I haven't really gotten any further because I've been struggling with the background image thing for almost 2 days.  I did try to figure out how to create navigation panes on different portions of the window, but that wasn't working like I expected either.

If someone can help me at least get started by explaining how to create a background "wallpaper" for the web site, or tell me if it's even possible, I would greatly appreciate it.  TIA.

Well, I tried to install the images and I got an error message in French.  No idea what it means.  If anyone thinks they might be able to help, please let me know and I can email a PDF of the mockup.  TIA

Hi,

Here is a note that I intend to send to new users as much as I can.

Welcome to the openElement Forum

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In addition, there are other videos on this other YouTube playlist

You will find several user tutorial here

In addition to the models available from openElement’s library you may have a look to those offered by Sensode

In addition to OE’s standard elements, some additional user designed elements are available here

 

P.S.

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We are not openElement’s staff.

We are happy to help when we are available to provide tips, tricks, and sometimes a few code lines. We appreciate that users make a serious research and self-study effort.

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