Patterns and Drop Shadows

Skills Covered
Background Patterns
Image Drop Shadows
Fireworks Glow
Fireworks Textures

This exercise is going to walk you through a few popular designs that are very simple to duplicate. Hurry up and learn this because it's not going to be popular forever (Maybe two weeks)!

The first thing you are going to learn is to get a repeating pattern in the background, outside of the wrapper div. It's going to look like this:

Next you will create the illusion that the content area has a shadow around it. The project will look like this:

Finally, you will combine the two techniques to produce something like this: