Hi I need some help with this background and buttons

[DaBox]

Basically I have this background and I want to put these transparent buttons in place so it could work as a proper menu screen

here is a picture of what happens: http://i.imgur.com/kiFOW.png

as you can see the transparent buttons are on the right side of the background, I want those buttons to be placed where the start and info buttons are located

I kept trying to see how I can fix this and I am literally stumped, when I setlayout to null the background picture goes away, but I can't use setbounds without using setlayout

basically I know the problem but I do not know how to fix it so I hope you guys can help

here is the code

code:

import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Container; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.ImageIcon; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; public class Menu extends JFrame implements ActionListener {         Container pane = getContentPane();         Container button = getContentPane();         JPanel background = new JPanel();         ImageIcon bg = new ImageIcon("LeagueTD Menu.png");         JLabel bgpic = new JLabel(bg);         JButton start = new JButton("");         JButton info = new JButton("");         public Menu()         {                 super("Menu");                 setSize(800,600);                 setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);                                 //Set buttons coordinates                 start.setBounds(32,367,182,72);                 info.setBounds(32,457,182,72);                 //set buttons transparent                 start.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,0));                 info.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,0));                 start.addActionListener(this);                 info.addActionListener(this);                 background.add(bgpic);                 background.add(start);                 background.add(info);                 pane.add("Center",background);                 setVisible(true);         }         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)         {                 if(event.getSource()==start)                 {                         dispose();                         Mode frame = new Mode();                 }         } }

[DaBox]

nvm I fixed it T_T

I just used setbounds for the background as well and used setlayout(null)

anyways while I have your attention if your reading this

anyone know of a good tutorial to build a tower defense game in java ? I'm still a complete noob