Working with eps and svg files

[Thisisnotanid]

Hi everyone, I'm working on a website and need some help. I'm really not experienced with this stuff and I'm using wix with some borrowed html snippets. I wanted to use a vectorized image as a background that would scale to fit the browser on any screen as best as it could based on the aspect ratio. The thing is, I only have the files as eps and ai files. I have to crop some of the files and export them as svg files, but I haven't found any program that will let me do that in one go. I've tried inkscape, GIMP, scribus, and openoffice Draw, but I can't get any of them to work. How can I efficiently crop and export files as svg files? Also, general tips on web-design relating to using "scalable" backgrounds would be appreciated. I didn't know where to post this, but if Python can help me with this, please tell! I can do a few things with the language. Thanks!

[pritaeas]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2200391/scalable-background-html-css-javascript

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[Thisisnotanid]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2200391/scalable-background-html-css-javascript

A lot of related questions in the sidebar, so you'll have plenty to read.

Thanks pritaeas. The link you provided helps with embedding images. I was more concerned with getting the images I have in the svg format. Any ideas on how I can convert eps and ai files to svg files? I'm really not in the know about this stuff, so a relatively small step-by-step would be really helpful if you could. Thanks!

[teedoff]

Im confused. If you have images saved as adobe illustrator, you can I think save them as svg files.

Here is the documentation.

[Thisisnotanid]

I'm not using any Adobe program. I'm only using the programs I've listed above and none of them seem to be able to get the job done. :/

[teedoff]

Here is a link I think on how to convert ai files to svg. I didnt investigate it much, but it would seem to be what your needing.