I have chosen to use a photo of my choice instead of the one that is offered in the book. This is my wonderful daughter and myself on her wedding day. She was so beautiful.I have also chosen to give this page a margin of 20em to create a space from the photo and the words.

The background-repeat property is set to no-repeat, so no "tiling" occurs.

Make sure that the path to the background images that you use are relative to the css file, not the xhtml file.

A good tip from Charles Wyke-Smith's book is that you should store content graphics and presesntational graphics in seperate folders.

Meaning of course that images that you would use as a background should go in one folder, and images that you use in say paragraphs of people etc.. should go into another folder. Background images are considered visual and should be stored seperatly.

On this page the image only appears once and is not tiled at all. This image is called the image of origin according to Charles Wyke-Smith's book. Should this image tile, then all the images would emanate for this one image. Even though this image is on the top left, you could change this with the background-position property.

There are tons of possiblities that can be accomplished in design with background images. And you have to choose them very carefully so that they blend in with your page.