luckystar

OK, thanks. I’ll try it. For me, the background image is now filling in where I want it to and the content area is staying white. My last problem is that the column width on the right side of the page is set wide so that you can scroll right even though there’s no content over there. Any idea on how I can adjust it?

Great. I’ve fixed the width and changed the size of my header, which has made everything look centered.

I just don’t quite understand how to have the background image fill in behind the header image as well. I want the content are to stay white, including the navigation, but the rest of the page to be covered with the background image. Is there a way to do that?

This is the code I have in the dynamic.css folder in line 72:

body #page, .commentlist ul.children .even, .alt #commentform textarea{background-color:#ffffff; width:980px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}

And in the style.css file in line 118, I have this:

body {
background: url(https://honeyrosenk.com.previewdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/grey_vintage_wallpaper_1.jpg) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;

again my site url is https://honeyrosenk.com.previewdns.com/. I don’t know what you can see since it’s in preview mode, but if you could help in any way that would be great because I’ll be done with the site!

shoot and it looks like when I hover over the navigation buttons the format gets messed up

OK so now I did your changes, but messed with the width a little bit in the dynamic.css folder. Here is the code I put in line 72 of the dynamic.css folder:

body #page, .sf-menu a:hover, .sf-menu a:active, .commentlist ul.children .even, .alt #commentform textarea{background-color:#ffffff; width:980px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}

I’m so close to getting it to do what I want it to do! I want the background image to fill in behind the header image. I want the white to stop right after the navigation. Here’s my url again with the change:

https://honeyrosenk.com.previewdns.com/

I’ve just done the change you suggested and it placed the image into the footer area, but I want the content area to stay white.

I’m sorry, I’ve just put the background image back in. Again, my url is

https://honeyrosenk.com.previewdns.com/

and I want the content area (including navigation) to be white, while the background image fills in behind it. I want it to look something like this:

https://www.garypeppervintage.com/

I’m going to try the above changes again and see if it works. Thanks for your help.

Thank you! I was able to figure out how to remove the search bar and the much in the footer. But I still would like to remove the page lines leaf in the footer and center the header. I figured out how to access the files in dreamweaver and tried the above changes for the background and it placed the background image in the footer and completely messed up the format of my site, so I changed it back! I can show you what it did if you want!

Also, my header image is a little off center…can you help me center it?

Thanks for the help! I just did the edit and it puts the background image in the footer and behind the entire content area. I want the footer to stay the color it is now and the background image to appear on both sides of the page and fill in around the header.

any chance that video is still coming my way?

THANK YOU!

OK so I figured out how to access all my files in dreamweaver. I still can’t figure out how to center to 1) Make a backup of each of the files (in a class I took, we added a ‘0’ to the title of some of the files and somehow that created a duplicate so that we could use that if anything got messed up. 2) Center the header 3) Remove the page lines logo in the footer, the more section, and the latest. 4) remove the search bar next to the navigation. 5) and finally, I haven’t tried the background thing you sent me because I wanted to make sure I knew how to backup the files first.

Yikes! Is there some sort of conditional that I’m supposed to be using in the footer file in order to remove the elements that I don’t want? Or do I simply delete something? I’m having a hard time locating in each file what needs to be changed in order to make what I want to happen work.

Did you mean change the width of the content area so that the header would be centered? And what do you mean the foot details aren’t clear? I’m sorry, I’m kind of new to this so I’m not entirely sure of what I’m doing. How does one “FTP the files to the folder?”

WOW this is amazing! I have a slight problem…I’m using dreamweaver to edit the code, but I have no idea where the files for my site are being saved! In other words, I was able to use the ftp address to access the site, but then I didn’t know what folder to access in order to make these changes! Once I find it, I will definitely try your changes! I will keep you updated…thank you so so so much for your help!

I’m working in a previewdns mode because the other site is currently live.

https://honeyrosenk.com.previewdns.com/