about colors????

[hmtpn]

is it possible to make the colors transparent (like putting a picture as a bacgound image, and setting a bacground color of a table cell to something transparent so that the background would be able to seen through the cell????
Second question: i see some good looking backgounds, color is fading lets say from top to bottom. is it done with using some codes, or is it done by using some other photo processing editors. if so which editor is most likely to be the best one.... thanks

[Ferret]

Most often this done using images made in a photo editor.

If you want a capable, free image editor I suggest using The Gimp: http://www.gimp.org. Assuming you can't get a hold of Photoshop cause you don't care to spend the money for it, The Gimp is worth using.

To apply the background image to an element in your site, use the following:

element
{
background-image: url(image.gif);
background-color: #rrggbb
}

http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background-image.asp

[LeeU]

Since this is CSS, I'm moving it to that forum

[ray326]

#2 - It's usually done with a tall, thin image used as a background with repeat-x.