I felt that I would like a more subtle, professional look and feel to my blog as perspective employers may well view this site, so therefore I would like to create a good impression. I therefore have redesigned both the background image and the banner at the top of the site and uploaded it to my site using the ftp manager in dreamweaver. Here is a screen shot of how my old background image and banner used to look before its image make over:

I have just managed to remove that giant black space between my banner and the rest of my site, with a bit of CSS writing, using the ftp manager on Dreamweaver. I must admit it looks alot better without that huge gap. Well pleased with that!!!