What is the easiest way to have a background
on all your pages? I have tried everything
I know. I got it to load on my right side
but I can't get but color on the rest.
Please help! Here is the url,
http://www.chazhound.com/gamelinks/pages/index.html



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Chazhound's Free Dog Page
chazhound.com

Read the 'README' file, and read the comments on the top of 'site_html.pl' file.

Regards,

Pasha

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webmaster@find.virtualave.net
http://find.virtualave.net

I wish someone would help jumpstart us newbies.
I am trying to at least put my background
on this script and test it out. So far I love
it but before I spend 150.oo I want it to
be right.
I read the material as I have before.
Does this mean to have my background
on every page of the link site I need to
set a varible for the background image?
http://www.chazhound.com/doglinks/pages/index.html
Like this?
$background = &http://www.chazhound.com/image/pawback1.jpg;

And put this at the top of site_html.pl then
call it with a tag. Is this right?

How come the background tag doen't work in
the templete?

Thanks for your help.
chazhound

Here is the url, am I on the right track?


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Chazhound's Free Dog Page
chazhound.com

Not sure if this will help, but what worked for me was to get rid of the -y that appeared after "repeat" on the links.css file. This is what mine looks like:

body {
color: #000000;
background: #000000 url("http://www.gamesta.com/_themes/travel/tratilea.jpg") repeat;

Hope this helps.


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Josh Monson
Webmaster
http://www.gamesta.com
The Online Gaming Directory

Hi,
Thanks for the info.
It did not work on mine.

Anybody know how to have background on your
page? I have the background working but
I cannot take the color out of the tables.
Where do you set the table colors to nothing
so the background will show on the whole page?
Here is my url:
http://www.chazhound.com/doglinks/pages/index.html

Thanks much

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Chazhound's Free Dog Page
chazhound.com

Your problem is with the CSS, not the HTML.

The default style sheet is very heavily defined...colors, fonts, positioning, etc. This includes the background colors for the table cells. While the sheet is very well done from a HTML 4.0 strict viewpoint, it can be cumbersome when trying to modify your site's appearance, especially if you are trying to mix it with other HTML elements and aren't used to using CSS.

To eliminate the table background colors, look for the various style sheet table references (you will have to change more than one, but the comments will help you find them) and take out the line that says:

background: #FFFFFF;


Another thought...you can take out the CSS calls from each template and redo your site with regular HTML. If the style sheet is frustrating your efforts, you may be happier without it!

Hi Brad,
Thanks for the info.
I tried taking out all the background calls
is the links.css and it did not work.
I will try it again to be sure.
Is there anything else that I should do.
What exactly do the css calls look like and
where do I have to remove them?
I really want a uniform background.
Is it hard to scrap the css?
Thanks again for the help...

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Chazhound's Free Dog Page
chazhound.com

Hey, I am finally getting it to work.
I got it to work in netscape but
still working on Internet Explorer.
I was taking out to many.
I will keep the css as I will never learn
it if I don't play with it.
Thanks again, I am on the right track now.


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Chazhound's Free Dog Page
chazhound.com

Hi

Make sure that the URI is absolute in the style sheet (MSIE and NN work in different ways and this is the only way to make them both work).

Also try reversing the background and color bits like this:

body {
background: #FFFFFF url("http://localhost/links/pages/background.gif") repeat-y;
color: #000000;
}

I don't really understand why this make a difference but it seems to sometimes.

Chris

Use the transparent tag to get rid of the table and text backgrounds. for example;

/* Paragraph */
p {
margin-left: 60px;
color: #FFFFCC;
background: #transparent;
font-family: "verdana", "arial", "geneva", sans-serif;
}



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Josh Monson
Webmaster
http://www.gamesta.com
The Online Gaming Directory