I need some guidance please

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Hi,

I decided to switch from the theme I was using in the CC Editor and use the RLMP.

I went through as much of the QSG as I could stand and have searched the forum but I can't get a background image to show up on the site I'm working on.

I have been using Wordpress since around 2005 and just kind of got away from html as far as site design because WP made a lot of things really easy to do.

Here's a link to the test site I have up ( http://www.mytestblog.net/testing/) and would like anyone that has time to take a look and let me know what I'm doing incorrectly with the background image. If I put the style in the html it works OK. If I use the custom css file there's just no joy.

Thanks for any help, pointers or even calling me bad names for missing something that must be very simple. :-)

Just so everyone knows, I have a very high mechanical aptitude so my brain works a little different that the cerebral types. Most of the issues I've had in the past were usually path issues so I hope that's all this is and not something stupid on my part.

I would also like to know how to get the body a solid color. Do I have to put the body inside a container or just code it in the css file?

Thanks for any help,

Ernie Hodge
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Having background images has not been implemented in RLMP. You will have to export your layout and then edit the css to include a background image.
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It's simple demo and very easy way follow this demo.

it's too late night here and I did it simple and fast way and I hope it will helps

Have a look at following demo:

http://www.feizsite.com/CoffeeCup/dlt/b … round.html
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In your custom.css

/* Site Wide CSS*/

html {
background: url(img/background.png) repeat;
text-align: center;
}

add "../" before img/background.png
Such as
background: url(../img/background.png) repeat;

YouTube link for demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taQm0lEzVI

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Mansour,

Thank you for the pointer about the path in the css. I tried that and it still doesn't work. I did try with on dot and with no dot and just the slash but nothing.

I think for now I will settle for just having the style in the header section until I can get some other things figured out.

If I can get this index page where I want it I think a lot of other things will fall into place. I'm not used to working with divs and I want to get up to speed with this type of website.

Anyway, thanks for helping,

Ernie
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OK,
I tried margins and padding and now need to know which way to go with this page: http://www.mytestblog.net/testing/

Here's what I'm 'TRYING' to do. The top action bar is where the menu is going to be and it's what it is supposed to be as far as width. The really nice picture is fine with the small space between it and the menu bar.

I would like to know how to get the space between the picture and the text to be roughly the same size as the space above the picture.

And, how do I make all the rows and columns beneath that the same width as the picture. (Everything below the picture should be the same width as the picture.)

The bottom action bar is the footer and should extend out like the top action bar.

Thanks for not making me beg. I can do this entire site in a few hours from scratch with plain old html but this is kicking my butt.

Ernie
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One thing at a time. The extra space above text is being controlled by margin.
Check you top margin for your id column-11
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I do like your main photo a lot Ernie that's really good :cool:
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Eric,
It was very late for me last night when I posted, 5:30 AM to 9:30 PM is a long day.

Thanks for the pointer on where to start. I have the vertical almost fixed and now I'm working on the horizontal margins, padding etc. which is challenging.

We have to go to the hardware store for some supplies but I will be back in here later to see if anyone is like me and can't get away from working.

G'kar,

I wish I could take credit for taking that picture. The man who owns the fish camp was using it on his Facebook page and I told him that needed to go on his website. It really is a great picture.

Ernie
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I updated what I did on my test site and I now did something I can't find. I got the space between the text box and the picture fixed. Then I worked on the space between the next two rows/columns and had that fixed until I found that I still had some of the outer containers with transparent backgrounds. Fixed the backgrounds.

When you change the background color from transparent to a color how do you change it back to transparent if needed?

Then I tried (I do have to try things so I can learn) to fix the side margins which I guess I should have kept my sticky little fingers off of (until I had a little more help) and now I don't know what I did to cause the mess.

I have a project to do outside before it rains but will check back later.

Should I maybe start over from scratch (with a new file and not overwrite my existing file) and see if I can get farther than where I am without and guidance? Or might that be a waste of time?

Thanks,

Ernie
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