im in the middle of building my web site (my first one, so its taking me a few days.. all those darn images to resize

) .... but i inquired with my hubby on my backgrounds and he told me to resize to 1024x1500 pixels ... depending if u want it to scroll or not and the size of the person's screen size .. or if u want to fit it to a smaller screen .. about 700x400 pixels ... and put it in a table as a background image, with another basic color that html offers for the edges..
if the image is smaller, the html code will repeat the image and the edges may not match ... i would try to go with a larger image (or if u only want plain backgrounds that the html code offers).
*as if i know what im talking about*