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geek
Fri 1st Jun '01, 6:25am
is it possible to have the background or surrounding border of the board display a tiled image? i basically want the same wood grain look as here... jerrybuilt.com (http://jerrybuilt.community.everyone.net)

like the look, but want to control my own board.

Also, am just starting, do you edit these templates thru the control panel, and do you have to know all this code stuff?
thanks in advance. great community you have going here, glad to be a part of it .
snyx
Fri 1st Jun '01, 6:32am
In your CP, go

STYLES MODIFY > FONTS/COLORS/ECT

On that page fine BODY TAG, and add this in it.

background="/images/woody.gif"

it should look somthing like this;

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" background="/images/woody.gif">

Then, upload the attched image to /images/ folder, (or where you want it) and there ya go.

Hope that helps!
snyx
geek
Fri 1st Jun '01, 7:01pm
i meticulously did that, and still everything remained the default "'blue" color background. i went back and changed the main window to only take up 80% instead of 100% in case the tiled image was behind, and the board itself only got narrower. changed that back in a hurry. :) anyway is there some other variable i have to tweak? thanks so much.
Steve Machol
Fri 1st Jun '01, 11:10pm
I just checked your fourm site and I see the tiled image background just fine. maybe you were stilling viewing a cached version of your page. Try refreshing.

Oopps - never mind. It appears that the forum you listed in your first message is not vB. What's the URL to your vB forum?
geek
Sat 2nd Jun '01, 8:34pm
yes, i was using a bulletin board through "everyone.net", but don't like the control they have, and the questions they require for signing up. anyway that is a good question, "what is the url to my forum?" well the folders go as follows:
jerrybuilt.com\forum\upload\index.php3
(actually checked it out and it works. )

i put the image (yes, uploaded as binary) into the folder: jerrybuilt.com\forum\upload\images

in the control panel , under "body tag" i squeezed in this :
background="/images/woody.gif"

it looked like this:
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" background="/images/woody.gif" more stuff here then >

if you can think of anything, and i'll try a run thru again. thanks again. don
Steve Machol
Sun 3rd Jun '01, 1:32am
Originally posted by geek
it looked like this:
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" background="/images/woody.gif" more stuff here then >

if you can think of anything, and i'll try a run thru again. thanks again. don

There's the problem. There shouldn't be a / in front of images/woody.gif. Remove that and it should work.


<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" background="images/woody.gif" more stuff here then >
geek
Sun 3rd Jun '01, 6:08pm
i got it. looks pretty good. thanks a lot.

This is so cool, great community, what a lot of fun! :D