Re: background challenge

[welshstew]

"germ" wrote:

Is two smaller images better for bandwidth/ loading etc than one big image?

It should be, due to the ability of most modern browsers to multi thread downloads of assets (apart from ie sh!ts, sorry I mean six ;) )

The best thing to do is to try both and install yslow firefox add on to see the results:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369