Image help

[firefighter508]

Ok, so I started over from scratch on my buddies website. (thankfully there is no deadline). My original page had a photoshopped image for the header but I am trying to just use html and css to layout my page. So I am trying to layout the header and everything is good except for the image. I know how to make it so that it doesn't repeat, but I cannot seem to change the size of the image to stretch it out. I can resize the header if I need to because the image gets distorted, right now its just changing the width of the image.

Side note, after the image url I added the width attribute and the image just completely disappeared.

Thanks in advance.

[firefighter508]

Apparently you can't read the pictures but here is my css code.

.header{
background-image: url("pictures/garagetekcover.jpg");
border: 2px inset white;
border-radius: 25px;
width: 50%;
height: 300px;
margin: auto;
color: white;
text-align: center;
font-size: 200%;
}