GUI Tkinter - Background image on main app

from Tkinter import *
import tkMessageBox
import urllib, os, urllib2, httplib



class Application(Frame):
    def __init__(self, master):
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.grid()
        self.create_widgets()

    def visit(self):
        visiturl = self.url_ent.get()
        request = urllib2.Request(visiturl)
        httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
        opener = urllib2.build_opener() 
        feeddata = opener.open(request).read()
        print feeddata


    def about(self):
        tkMessageBox.showinfo("Jedi",'''
        Jedi
        ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
        Jedi Rulz''')

    def close(self):
        root.destroy()


    def history(self):
        tkMessageBox.showinfo("Pyge Visitor",'''
        No History  
        +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
        Testing 
        Date: 10/03/2008''')

    def create_widgets(self):

        # Menubar
        menubar = Menu(self)
        filemenu = Menu(menubar, tearoff = 0)
        filemenu.add_command(label = "History", command=self.history)
        filemenu.add_separator()
        filemenu.add_command(label = "Close", command=root.quit)
        menubar.add_cascade(label = "File", menu = filemenu)
        root.config(menu=menubar)
        helpmenu = Menu(menubar, tearoff = 0)
        helpmenu.add_command(label = "About", command=self.about)
        menubar.add_cascade(label = "Help", menu = helpmenu)
        # create the label for instructions
        self.ins_lbl = Label(self, text = "Enter Your Pyge:")
        self.ins_lbl.grid(row = 0, column = 0, columnspan = 3, sticky = NW)
        # create entry for url
        self.url_ent = Entry(self, width = 29)
        self.url_ent.grid(row = 1, column = 1, columnspan = 3, pady = 2, padx = 5)
        # create label for url
        self.url_lbl = Label(self, text = "URL :")
        self.url_lbl.grid(row = 1, column = 0, sticky = NW)
        # create visit button
        self.cust_bttn = Button(self, text = "Visit",command=self.visit)
        self.cust_bttn.grid(row = 4, column = 0, columnspan = 3, sticky = N, padx = 3, pady = 5)


root = Tk()
root.title("Jedi")
root.geometry( "250x100+300+200")
root.resizable(0,0)
app = Application(root)
root.mainloop()

import Tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk ()
root.title('image hard')

# pick a .gif image file you have in the working directory
image1 = tk.PhotoImage(file="something.gif")
w = image1.width()
h = image1.height()

root.geometry("%dx%d+0+0" % (w, h))

# tk.Frame has no image argument
# so use a label as a panel/frame
panel1 = tk.Label(root, image=image1)
panel1.pack(side='top', fill='both', expand='yes')

button2 = tk.Button(panel1, text='button2')
button2.pack(side='right')



#save the panel's image from 'garbage collection
panel1.image = image1

#start the even loop
root.mainloop()