Auto-resize background image in Thematic child theme?

I recently was experimenting with putting a background image that auto-resized to 100% width in this post…

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/344768?replies=5

Now I’m playing with creating a child theme in Thematic that would do the same thing. If I were to use this code…

<div><img id="diamondigloo" title="" alt="" src="images/diamondigloosplash.jpg"/></div>

…to get my background image, would I write a plugin for this or would I put a function in the functions.php file in my child theme. And what would either of those look like? I’m trying to learn hooks and filters but I’m needing a little nudge in the right direction now.

Thanks!