Anyone know a hack

[Simon]

Originally Posted by cockhungryhoes

Do you know why I can not use a bgcolor= or an img bg. DW makes it easy to use these. I read about in many of the html tutorials. I didnt understand why they would not validate. I checked the formatting several times.

I think the only problem with this is that you're trying to validate your page to XHTML standards, and the bgcolor and the background attributes of the BODY tag are deprecated (no longer in the specs) for XHTML.