Modding my theme and setting

[mrconfident]

Sorry Im new and do not know any verbage. All I want to do really is change the color of the bars and add a background image to match my website. How will I go about that?

All help is valued. Thanks.

[bullbreedluverz]

the colour bars are images contained in your theme files

Themes/yourthemename/images/(imagename)

you have a series of different images for the forum including the bars and 1s for the buttons, you have to recolour these and upload em to the images directory of your forum using ftp - you can right click on the image on your forum to get the name of that perticular image

to add a background - this is off my 1.1.8 theme add

body {background-image: url(images/youbackroundname.jpg/gif/png);}

at the very start of your style.css

if you on RC1

find in style.css

/* set a fontsize that will look the same in all browsers. */
body
{
   font: 95%/90% Verdana;
   background: #000000;
   margin: 0;
   padding: 25px 0 4px 0;
}

replace with

/* set a fontsize that will look the same in all browsers. */
body
{
   font: 95%/90% Verdana;
   background: #000000;
   background:url(images/youbackroundname.jpg/gif/png);
   margin: 0;
   padding: 25px 0 4px 0;
}

on both change youbackroundname.jpg/gif/png to what ever your background is called e.g. background.jpg

and upload your background image to themes/yourthemename/images/

do you understand this?

[bullbreedluverz]

ive attatched some images you might want to upload to your forum to forums/Themes/default/images/

these will replace the standard smf new post/ no new posts icons - see what you think of them