html code to insert background image for a text

tvklovesu · Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 5

Hello guys,
I own a website and this is developed by third party. the url is www.rsvdigitalworld.com. When you look at this site on left side I have categories listed in a table. I was requesting them to provide options to add background image for the category names. But they gave me the home page html code and asked me to do what ever I need so they will integrate as it is. So this is the chance for me to add an image like button as a background for the text. I tried using background but no luck. I can able to add bgcolor but i need image instead of color

Can some one help me how to solve this. I know very basic html. Please provide me with html code that I can insert in the home page code

Please provide your suggessions asap as I am in need badly for this feature
Thanks in advance

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1409 Location: Biloxi, MS

Will be glad to help, but you have some SERIOUS code errors on your main page and probably similar ones on your other pages. Right now, your site is throwing every browser into quirks mode which means no two browsers are parsing/displaying your pages the same.

Even the w3x.org's validator could not validate the page!

You have so many coding errors in your CSS stylesheet, too.

Use of tables is no longer the web standard either. Your links should be in an unordered list if you want to even start to be Search Engine friendly.

Did one background image link using some of your code (corrected). This is one way:

tvklovesu · Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 5

Hello PayneLess Designs,
Thanks for your analasys. Your suggessions are very helpfull but the problem is my site is maintaining by third party webdesigner. They are not helping me in any changes that I need on my site. They alsways says that its thier wed design standards. And even for small changes they ask more to pay. Its very problem for me and getting frustration with this. I was under thier control. I need a good developer to do these changes and even the changes that I need. Is there any recomendation on this like the some one needs to do developing and hosting. Is the hosting website easy if so I will maintain that part. Please let me know if some one are interested in do it.

Regarding the image. It worked out for me. Really thanks for the code. I am happy atleast this one came out perfect.

Thanks

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1409 Location: Biloxi, MS

Glad the code worked out for you ok. Need any more help there just let me know.

Sorry to hear that your web designer thinks that the code they are using is the best for your pages. It is so outdated. and not very search engine friendly.

I am not familiar with the EasyWebCreator Software which is at the bottom of your page. I guess this is the software being used to make your site and which you would have to be familiar in usng to maintain your site as is.

Since you have an eCommerce type site, you are using ASP to generated your pages. To do all this yourself you would need to know ASP to some extent, your hosting site would have to be able to use this scripting as well as have the necessary databases.

I don't know what is in your contract between you and your web developer so I can not comment on anything else.

I imagine you could do it yourself with some training. If you own the domain name outright, it is yours to use on any other host you wish although what ever ranking you have with the search engines may be lost for a short time while you transfer site to new host. A 301 redirect can help with that. The rest is getting use to the Control Panel, learning ASP, setting up changes to items using PayPal's codes, etc..

Let me know if you need more help on coding.

Ron

tvklovesu · Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 5