need help with interface designing

http://r-designs.uni.cc/?id=news/news

^ is an example of what i meant (this is hard to explain so bear with me plz:))

How do you make the side border going forever?? I dont mean a black line, I mean a picture. Like the site above, it has a silverish thick gradient border and it can be very long or very short... how do u do that???

damn i sound noobish but i really just cant figure it out:(

If any1 understands me plz help

And hi everyone

Hey mate, basically, the left and the right collumns just need the background code added to their TD...

<td> becomes <td background="yourbackground.gif">

Do that for the left one, and the right one (you need 2 seperate images)

Or, you could just have one collumn, and put the table background as the backgrounnd.... <table width="700px" background="yourbackground.gif">

thx mate!

i'll try that when i finish designing the layout

thx again:)