Hi guys,

I want to give my navigation line a background image.
I've seen that I can change the color of this line with the stylesheets.

Is it also possible to use a background image and not only a color within these css?

Does using images like that as opposed to using color codes have much of an effect on server performance?

You are loading a gif file but most of the sizes we are talking about have little effect.

Bandwidth is bandwidth so there is some. Something in the Millisecond range load difference unless the file is big and drags the server down.

One way to keep the file size down is to just cut an image so that it is only a few lixels wide (I normally cut my at 10 pixels). Since it is a background image it will tile, filling up the space that it's in. You can see the effect on my site.

The only area where I don't use a small graphic slice is my logo. Due to it's placement withing the tables it looks better being a single solid graphic.

Thanks for the insight guys

As far as images go they will use the same amount of bandwidth no matter how their placed or used in the page. HTML color attributes will display instantly whereas images may be the last things loaded during the page creation. Depending on how you want things to drop into place when the page is being created you may want to opt for html colors.