This code produced the attached screen shot from Dreamweaver's Preview in Browser:
<html>
<head>
<title>full_page2_bkg2.html</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#0000CC" marginwidth="0" marginheight'"0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" link="#CCCCCC" vlink="#CCCCCC" alink="#CCCCCC">
<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; width:100px; height:40px; z-index:1; left: 782px; top: 452px">
<div id="Layer2" style="position:absolute; width:9px; height:13px; z-index:10; left: -573px; top: 16px"><img src="copyr_db2.gif" width="20" height="20"></div>
<p> </p>
<p align="center"><font color="#CCCCCC"><b><font face="Verdana"><u><font size="2"><a href="wwhome.html" target="_parent">Home</a></font></u></font></b></font></p>
</div>
<p> </p>
<table width="50" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td><a href="full_page3_bkg3.html"><img src="fp2_bkg.jpg" width="950" height="625" border="0" usemap="#Map"></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="1,1,951,627" href="full_page3_bkg3.html" target="_parent">
</map>
</body>
</html>
Site visitors are instructed prior to viewing a series of pages - showing samples of (lets call them) backgrounds for images - to click on these pages to move forward, or on the (layer) word "home" to go to their starting point. I know it's off course to do it this way and I will eventually improve the formating, but for now I get (for me) an acceptable result. The pages are meant to be seen like clean (and uncluttered as possible) canvases. The attached page works because I can map the .jpg to link to the next page. The sample page created with a tiled background .jpg doesn't for the reason you point out. It would have been nice because the sample would have covered the entire page. Guess I'll do something else. Thanks much for your advice and consideration - truly appreciated. JR