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Just FYI, 1024px wide works fine for 17 inch monitors but if you have a larger monitor size it may not. I have a 19" wide screen monitor and it cuts off any 1024px images so they dont fit the entire screen on my profile page. To find out what your screen resolution is right click on your desktop then click Properties then Settings or for a faster way just click here:

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You are using 1440 X 900, 17'' Lap top

I'm using the default setting 1152x864 for my I-Inc 19 inch widescreen monitor with a desktop 'puter.

This is a great link to let us know our screen resolution. But that brings up a problem - different computers and different browsers display things differently - dadgummitt!

My laptop display is "You are using 1024 X 768" and my eMac gets this message: "You are using 1152 X 864" I usually choose tiling backgrounds, so hadn't noticed differences in the displays. Now I'll have to make some choices so the larger backgrounds will look right on my own computers!

So, maybe it would be helpful to come up with some suggestions/tips to consider on choosing/using background images that will help them display the best for different visitors. There are choices about whether the image will repeat or not, scroll or not and what position it will be. Could some of these choices help in making the image work for more folks? Such as centering the background and choosing a color that would fill in around the image? Anyone have some suggestions?

Here's some interesting discussions about how to choose the size of the image used for a background and some methods used to address the issue of different monitor sizes:

Uses javascript to call in different sizes of backgrounds to fit visitor's monitor:
view link" rel="nofollow">view link answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid= 20090131083353AATR8oA

Uses HTML and Css to cause the background image to stretch:
view link" rel="nofollow">view link answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid= 20090131083353AATR8oA

Discusses the ideas above and also talks about having a gradient border on the image that would blend into a background color. The background color would act like a border if the person viewing the page had a larger monitor:
view link www.astahost.com/info.php/Size- Background-Photoshop_t13533.html

What do you think?