A nice little way of adding a header image to a fluid layout it to break the header images into two slices and then assign the headers to a div in the same container like so. <style type="text/css"> #myContainerName { background: url('/path/to/images/header-back.jpg') repeat-x; height: 220px; } #myContainerName #leftBackground { background: url('/path/to/images/header-left.jpg') left no-repeat; height: 100%; [...]