[Wrams]

Hello,

Can someone make a tutorial on how to change the background in VBulletin? What i want to do is add a pattern to the background of a VBulletin board i'm practicing on. However i'm not sure how to do this.

If anyone could explain to me what i need to do that would be great.

Thank you!!

[saltedm8]

it depends on which background, do you mean where we have white ?... or the background that is a sort of peach colour ?

[Wrams]

No the background thats white...

[saltedm8]

ok, that's easy enough, you need to go to Styles and Templates in the admincp, then go to styles manager, find your templates name and on the option all style options. click go

once there find 'Body' ( its near the top under 'HTML Doctype' ); to change the colour you change 'Background' to include an image do this in the box beside it.

background-image:url( images/background.jpg); for example

or if you are adjusting a template that is within a folder

background-image:url(images/templatename/innerfolder/background.png);

but you need to make sure the root is right ( where you placed the new image ).

[Wrams]

Ok i have that, where do i load the image in the first place? I mean will there be a folder or do i need to create one in my forums root? And if so what do i call it?

[saltedm8]

you upload it to your server, I would just put it inside the images folder,

[Wrams]

Once its in the images folder where do i get its path from? Like images/background.jpeg or whatever its called. Then that path is what i would put into the template manager correct?

[Michael]

Originally Posted by Wrams Once its in the images folder where do i get its path from? Like images/background.jpeg or whatever its called. Then that path is what i would put into the template manager correct?

If you have uploaded it to the images folder at /images/yourimage.gif then you just edit what glynn has said above to the correct path.

[Wrams]

Ok, i'm going to try this. Wish me luck...Lol

I know it seems simple to you guys but remember i'm very new to this so this is part of my learning curve.

Once i've done something once i don't need to be tought again.so thats one good thing...;)

Anyway thanks for your help guys i really appreciate it.

[Michael]

Hope it all goes well, can we see a screenshot of the results too?