Creating a 3 row table with rounded edges and colored?

[jbroad572]

I think my other post got deleted since I was trying to show an example as to what I was talking about. Here's what I want to do:
I want to use a brick wall as my background and would like to dived the page into 4 sections. (horizontal row <top> and 3 rows). What I wanted to know is, is there a way to change the background color within the table? Because text on the brick is impossible to see. I would like to make the inside of the tables black/gray/ maybe fading a little as it goes to the bottom. Also, is there a way to make the corners of the table rounded instead of rectangular?

[limbo]

jbroad572

As you are using Dreamweaver (and I'm guessing design view) You can select a table cell and use the properties panel to select a background colour or image. If you use a backgound colour there will be no gradient, with a repeating background image you could create a fade from one hue to another.

Rounded corners are a different story and can also be done in many ways. The Dreamweaver hack to make nested tables and house gifs in the top and bottom corners. not elegant. Or you could place a rectangular gif with rounded corners to no-repeat as a background image in the cell - quick and simple but heavy on bandwidth.

I think CSS is the tool for these jobs - goole "css rounded corners" and you'll see what I mean. Using Cascading Style sheets for your background image and for table background styles is far more elegant too + they'll expand and contract with you content.

[jbroad572]

Sounds rather involved and yes I'm using Dreamweaver.
Thanks for the tips.

[jbroad572]

I sent you a sticky mail.
Thanks for all of your help!