A few questions on editing

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:53 pm

Ok.....
First off hello everyone. I needed a break from the .php headaches and my friend asked me to make a theme for him.
I used 3D-Fantasy as a temple to work off of. I read somewhere on here that it was good to start with. Which in my opinion it is. I tryed to make a clean theme and just have a few touch up's to do.
Two small problems though....

1. First off is getting the header to drop down a bit. "STUMPED!!!!!" (i thought it was off the bottom of header.html but i played and nothing of the sort. Im thinking somewhere there is a "cellpadding" or something. But could this be from tables.php? In there ofcourse there is cellpadding.
2. And the second is to add a background to it. I was thinking of useing some sort of scan lines on a 45% angle. But where to do this im stumbled! My first thoughts is the theme "index.html"

Thanks again.
Also any feedback would be great!
Just please don't make me cry Wink

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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:39 pm

Look at view source and then figure out where in the php code that comes from. Most likely there is a themeheader function. I can see a div align=center and a (probably) redundant center code on your page and then a 840 pixel table. You could just move the table down with a couple of br's I think.

For the background image there is probably a css file in your theme directory. Use syntax such as the following to point it to an image:

body
{
background-image:
url('bgdesert.jpg')
}

That might get you started until someone else with more knowledge of the specific themes you are working with can help out.

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:12 pm

Ok I got the space problem fixed. There was a little <br> hidden in there.

As for the BG nopers.
After vieweing the page source through my browser. I see

Code:

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#363636" vlink="#363636" alink="#d5ae83"><br>

OK i think i got it. In the theme header part of theme.php there are the settings

Code:

echo "<body bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" text=\"#000000\" link=\"#363636\" vlink=\"#363636\" alink=\"#d5ae83\"><br>\n\n\n";

I assume this is it. I don't belive i never saw this earlier. I probably looked at it 100 times.

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:24 pm

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