Joy, I think the background you are talking about the textured blue image with the orange flourishes? I tested in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari and it does go all the way down for me. However, it takes a very long time to load, which I think might be related to what you’re experiencing.
Your background image is nearly 3MB, which, generally speaking, is extremely large. It might solve your problem to dramatically reduce the file size, or consider altering the dimensions so that a much smaller graphic is tiled. I can try to help you optimize the graphic if you like.
Ok… I thought I had reduced the size by pxls. so instead of 300 or 600 dpi – bringing it down to 72 dpi. I guess I need to go check on that again. Thank you so much!!!! Do you know what I would need to set it at at 72 dpi in size to keep the same look essentially?
72 dpi is right. Really there isn’t a ‘right’ size, but optimizing your graphics will help your site load much faster, which is really nice.
Generally, I would consider 200 KB a pretty big graphic. Your image is 2.85 MB which is about 2,900 KB – so to my personal tastes, you’d need drastic reduction. I would recommend first cropping the image in 1/2 vertically, so the dimensions are 2,000×1,000 instead of 2kx2k. Then if you have Photoshop you could export for web as JPEG at about 50% quality. That gets you down to something approaching 6% the original size, which is awesome – but you do lose some quality. If you treat the top and bottom vertical edges so that they fade into a fuzzy turquoise (add some noise maybe) it would reduce the visible tiling between repeats.
There are other tricks you can use to keep the quality higher, like breaking the image into left and right sides, thereby removing the section of graphic that still has to load but gets covered by the web content area, but that would require modifications to your theme. Hope that’s helpful! Good luck!
Thanks – I think it is going to require some tweaking on my part. I don’t know why but in mozilla it only goes 3/4 still for me. Loads quickly but not all the way.
Thanks again – I appreciate all your help. 🙂
