[Sean S]

No problem at all Russell,

as far as I know, or the way I would do it would be exactly the same way you did it. I don't know of any way that you can expand the background image, there might be a way, but it will probably require some kind of javascript function I'm guessing.

Another problem is that if you find a way to do it, it will most likely act differently for different browsers so the best bet would be to either change your font color or do something about your background color.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
small solution:

One little thing that you can do, is to set the alignment to "top right", that way you get more of the darker color at the left where your text starts, and set your background color to the darker color. So it would look like this for example,

#E77020 url(images/OrangeJuice/gradients/gradient_site.jpg) repeat-y top right;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

hope that made sense