Do you want to apply that appearance site wide, or do you only want to apply it to that one page? You don't ever need to use images for background colors. The time would be better invested learning .css
Here is a modified stock login page that should do what you want. you'll have to adjust for any modifications you've already made.
Your adding a wrapper div around the whole page, and a div to clear the two sides (the equivalent of a return button for divs) so that the wrapper will expand around the whole thing.
If you want this background sitewide, it takes one code change (to a different page) and it will apply site wide.
<?php
/*
$Id$
osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
http://www.oscommerce.com
Copyright (c) 2010 osCommerce
Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
require('includes/application_top.php');
// redirect the customer to a friendly cookie-must-be-enabled page if cookies are disabled (or the session has not started)
if ($session_started == false) {
tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_COOKIE_USAGE));
}
require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_LOGIN);
$error = false;
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['action']) && ($HTTP_GET_VARS['action'] == 'process') && isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['formid']) && ($HTTP_POST_VARS['formid'] == $sessiontoken)) {
$email_address = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['email_address']);
$password = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['password']);
// Check if email exists
$check_customer_query = tep_db_query("select customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_email_address = '" . tep_db_input($email_address) . "'");
if (!tep_db_num_rows($check_customer_query)) {
$error = true;
} else {
$check_customer = tep_db_fetch_array($check_customer_query);
// Check that password is good
if (!tep_validate_password($password, $check_customer['customers_password'])) {
$error = true;
} else {
if (SESSION_RECREATE == 'True') {
tep_session_recreate();
}
// migrate old hashed password to new phpass password
if (tep_password_type($check_customer['customers_password']) != 'phpass') {
tep_db_query("update " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " set customers_password = '" . tep_encrypt_password($password) . "' where customers_id = '" . (int)$check_customer['customers_id'] . "'");
}
$check_country_query = tep_db_query("select entry_country_id, entry_zone_id from " . TABLE_ADDRESS_BOOK . " where customers_id = '" . (int)$check_customer['customers_id'] . "' and address_book_id = '" . (int)$check_customer['customers_default_address_id'] . "'");
$check_country = tep_db_fetch_array($check_country_query);
$customer_id = $check_customer['customers_id'];
$customer_default_address_id = $check_customer['customers_default_address_id'];
$customer_first_name = $check_customer['customers_firstname'];
$customer_country_id = $check_country['entry_country_id'];
$customer_zone_id = $check_country['entry_zone_id'];
tep_session_register('customer_id');
tep_session_register('customer_default_address_id');
tep_session_register('customer_first_name');
tep_session_register('customer_country_id');
tep_session_register('customer_zone_id');
tep_db_query("update " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS_INFO . " set customers_info_date_of_last_logon = now(), customers_info_number_of_logons = customers_info_number_of_logons+1 where customers_info_id = '" . (int)$customer_id . "'");
// reset session token
$sessiontoken = md5(tep_rand() . tep_rand() . tep_rand() . tep_rand());
// restore cart contents
$cart->restore_contents();
if (sizeof($navigation->snapshot) > 0) {
$origin_href = tep_href_link($navigation->snapshot['page'], tep_array_to_string($navigation->snapshot['get'], array(tep_session_name())), $navigation->snapshot['mode']);
$navigation->clear_snapshot();
tep_redirect($origin_href);
} else {
tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));
}
}
}
}
if ($error == true) {
$messageStack->add('login', TEXT_LOGIN_ERROR);
}
$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE, tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'template_top.php');
?>
<h1><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></h1>
<?php
if ($messageStack->size('login') > 0) {
echo $messageStack->output('login');
}
?>
<div style="width:83%;margin-left:48px; margin-top:48px; margin-bottom:48px; padding:30px; background-color:#F3EDE1;">
<div class="contentContainer" style="width: 45%; float: left;">
<h2><?php echo HEADING_NEW_CUSTOMER; ?></h2>
<div class="contentText">
<p><?php echo TEXT_NEW_CUSTOMER; ?></p>
<p><?php echo TEXT_NEW_CUSTOMER_INTRODUCTION; ?></p>
<p align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_button(IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE, 'triangle-1-e', tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL')); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="contentContainer" style="width: 45%; float: left; border-left: 1px dashed #ccc; padding-left: 3%; margin-left: 3%;">
<h2><?php echo HEADING_RETURNING_CUSTOMER; ?></h2>
<div class="contentText">
<p><?php echo TEXT_RETURNING_CUSTOMER; ?></p>
<?php echo tep_draw_form('login', tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, 'action=process', 'SSL'), 'post', '', true); ?>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="fieldKey"><?php echo ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS; ?></td>
<td class="fieldValue"><?php echo tep_draw_input_field('email_address'); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="fieldKey"><?php echo ENTRY_PASSWORD; ?></td>
<td class="fieldValue"><?php echo tep_draw_password_field('password'); ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PASSWORD_FORGOTTEN, '', 'SSL') . '">' . TEXT_PASSWORD_FORGOTTEN . '</a>'; ?></p>
<p align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_button(IMAGE_BUTTON_LOGIN, 'key', null, 'primary'); ?></p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
<?php
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'template_bottom.php');
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php');
?>