I just made the layout glassy. Its not really made of glass though 8-). It is CSS gleaned from the downloadable tutorial on Eric Meyer's Excellent Site on the subject of CSS Web-Design zen.

More Specifically it is a fixed width non tiling background, er...thingy as in :

background-image: url(beach.jpg);
background-position: 0 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;

and

background-image: url(beachb.jpg);