Page Borders

I didn't know whether this would be considered a graphics issue or a coding issue, but I want to know how I could have a border on my page like the one at ubuntu.com.

Which border are you referring? Have you searched on CSS' border property?

Are you talking about the shadow around the white page? That's made by a background image.

Oh, yes, thank you. I can make it the background of a 3 by 3 table, right? That would ensure that the sides would grow if I filled up the middle section more, right?

I mean the border that separates the white from the orange/brown background, and I thought that CSS would only give me one of those ugly boxy borders.

You shouldn't use tables for layouts. Use Div layers with CSS, it also allows for expansion if you use it properly.
you could do it simply in a 3x3 set of divs or if you don't need expansion, 1x3.

I don't think I understand. Somebody I know that also does this sort of thing told me to use tables for layouts and divs for formatting text. The only thing that I know about divs is that they are good for combining with CSS.

And what is expansion?

Well tell the person you know to stop being stoopid. DIV's for layout, tables for tabular data.

No no no. They are very wrong. Tables is for data and displaying in organized columns and rows. Div layers are not for stylizing text. They are "Layers", kinda like in Photoshop, they for items to be moved separately around the page, even stacked on top of each other. They work through CSS and have many many many valuable properties that make them much more versatile that a simple table.

Okay. Then I guess I ought to start using div layers. Thank you all.

A good read: http://hotdesign.com/seybold

Thanks.