Is it possible for my back ground to be more than one color.
for instance i want the top to be one color and the bottom to be another?

With html, no.
But it might be possible some other way that I don't know about.

If you got the idea from some site then posting the link would help to find out how it was done.

you can make a 10 pixels width image (and X height .. depending on how you want it), that has those two colors.
Then let it repreat on your site horizontally .. and you'll get the same effect : )

Love,
Mirna

But that wouldn't work when your page is longer than image height, right?

You could make a table with border="0" and have two rows... one with one background colour and the second with the other colour.

Then you'd have to make sure that the content is divided evenly between the rows.