Need help getting custom theme to work

Do you have a working URL? (to the site not the files)

I’d suggest reading up on theme development.

@jaredatch

Yes the website is

https://www.limavadyyouths.co.uk

Ive had a bit of play around with the php more to the point where it calls the background image, but just not to the point of having it the background (was using css stretch background trick btw)

You’re using

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
@import url("style.css");
-->
</style>

to link up your stylesheet. That won’t work, because the ‘style.css’ is not in the root-folder, but in your theme-folder. You should use:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

Also, the closing > on your body-tag is missing.