Forum BG image help

[caedas]

We are attempting our first style on vB (I am mainly doing the server admin/asking questions part heh) and we are running into a little bit of difficulty.

While I can't link to the forum because it is a test site (and therefore passworded through .htaccess), I can give any needed details.

Here (http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2068/finalar4.jpg) is what we want the finished project to look like with a description. Since I did not design the graphics, I made some modifications to the quality and content, but anything you'd need to see is there. I also tried to describe what we needed help with in the image.

On top of what is requested in the image, we want to make the background image doesn't move when scrolling down.

Oh, and one last side note...because we are having a hard time getting it off the ground lol...if you happen to know anything about getting a good start on adding Wiki content, lemme know lol (you can take a look at that if you'd like at wiki.exodus-ls.org)!

Thanks a ton for your support on here and vb.org!

[Mike]

We are attempting our first style on vB (I am mainly doing the server admin/asking questions part heh) and we are running into a little bit of difficulty.

While I can't link to the forum because it is a test site (and therefore passworded through .htaccess), I can give any needed details.

Here (http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2068/finalar4.jpg) is what we want the finished project to look like with a description. Since I did not design the graphics, I made some modifications to the quality and content, but anything you'd need to see is there. I also tried to describe what we needed help with in the image.

On top of what is requested in the image, we want to make the background image doesn't move when scrolling down.

Oh, and one last side note...because we are having a hard time getting it off the ground lol...if you happen to know anything about getting a good start on adding Wiki content, lemme know lol (you can take a look at that if you'd like at wiki.exodus-ls.org)!

Thanks a ton for your support on here and vb.org!

Are you planning on using the current image as your skin, or taking pieces of it and making it a skin?

If you are using pieces of it, you will have to do code work to get it to look the way you want. If you look at the code I put into the pioneer skin, you will see how/where I added the side colums. You will find this code in the header and footer templates. You will have to add more code to it, to get everything to look correctly.

You also need to keep in mind if this is going to be a fixed or a fluid skin.

I am not sure how to keep the back ground image from scrolling. I would like to know how to do this myself, so I will look into this.

I can not help you with wiki.

[caedas]

Are you planning on using the current image as your skin, or taking pieces of it and making it a skin?

In all honesty, as long as the site is functional, it doesn't matter. Easier might be better since we are still very new to this whole skin thing hehe.


If you are using pieces of it, you will have to do code work to get it to look the way you want. If you look at the code I put into the pioneer skin, you will see how/where I added the side colums. You will find this code in the header and footer templates. You will have to add more code to it, to get everything to look correctly.

I'm going to take a look at it just as soon as I get the time. I must say it is a nice design.

You also need to keep in mind if this is going to be a fixed or a fluid skin.

IIRC, what I am talking about doing (with the background image not moving), it would be a fixed (I think) skin. If I am wrong, don't hesitate to correct me heh...

[caedas]

Also, we were wondering if editing a copy of the default theme was how people designed skins. I figured it had to be...but then again, I really know very little on the coding side of vB.

[Mike]

IIRC, what I am talking about doing (with the background image not moving), it would be a fixed (I think) skin. If I am wrong, don't hesitate to correct me heh...

Everyone has different resolution displays. Liquid means the skin adjusts to your screen size. The clean skin here is liquid, and the pioneer skin is fixed. Fixed means it has a fixed width.

Also, we were wondering if editing a copy of the default theme was how people designed skins. I figured it had to be...but then again, I really know very little on the coding side of vB.

I never touch the default style. I create a new style, which is the same as the default style and go from there. I have a tutorial here (http://www.vbcrew.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62) on how to create a new style.

[caedas]

Ok, it will definatly be fluid. Thanks for the link too...that's a nice bit of info.

[Mike]

Put this code in your page back ground.

#000000 url(path to your image) repeat fixed;

Change the color to what you want. The key is the repeat fixed;

Here is another example.

#0b3450 url(http://www.vbcrew.com/forums/images/misc/back.jpg) repeat fixed;