I can't see my background on my forums so I don't know how it looks. I'm using Firefox and don't know why I can't see it. I also tried in IE but still nothing. I press ctrl+F5 to refresh but nothing, lol. So I was wondering if anyone can tell me if they can see it? Also *if possible* can you take a screen cap so I can know how it looks? Thanks to anyone who helps.

Here's the link (http://forevermario.com/forums/) to the forums. Can you see the background? Or am I the only one?

Also incase someone asks, here's what I put in the css:

background-color: #324353;
background-image: url("http://forevermario.com/forums/templates/freeMind/images/bg.jpg");
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: repeat-x;

Is there something wrong in the coding?

Only thing that might throw off your code is when you are adding your background image. This is how I would do it:

<style type="text/css">

.classname {background-image: url (your_image.gif)}

</style>

I would remove the quotes and just give the name of the image. But, in order for that to work, you have to remember to put the image in the exact same folder as the page itself. Oh, and this is what the page looked like (I use IE):

[img=http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/390/ss1cg.th.jpg] (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss1cg.jpg)

God bless

whats ur site about?

Unless the style sheet for the forum has the background image in a different class, placing the background image in a separate class from the regular body portion of the style sheet seems unnecessary.

The only reason I can see that would cause the background image to not show would be the "" marks. Get rid of those and it should work.

Unless the style sheet for the forum has the background image in a different class, placing the background image in a separate class from the regular body portion of the style sheet seems unnecessary.

The only reason I can see that would cause the background image to not show would be the "" marks. Get rid of those and it should work.

Doesn't seem to work ... As a matter of fact not even the background color that I chaged it too works, it's still showing the default one. I don't know what else to do ...

whats ur site about?

Singer Mario Vazquez ;)

maybe the ' marks instead of " ?

lol tried it ... and still doesn't work. This is very odd ... :confusion:

Ok ... so I think I found the problem but don't know how to fix it. If you go to the boards and right-click to view my source here is what you will see:

/*
The freeMind Theme 1.1 for phpBB version 2+
Created by AU Templates
http://www.autemplates.com

NOTE: These CSS definitions are stored within the main page body so that you can use the phpBB2
theme administration centre. When you have finalised your style you could cut the final CSS code
and place it in an external file, deleting this section to save bandwidth.
*/

/* General page style. The scroll bar colours only visible in IE5.5+ */
body {
background-color: #234c60;
scrollbar-face-color: #d6dfe5;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #d6dfe5;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #c4d1da;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #234c60;
scrollbar-track-color: #e1e8ec;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #93a9b5;
margin-top: 0px;
}

Now all I've been editing is the css part that you can see here (http://forevermario.com/forums/templates/freeMind/freeMind.css). So my question is how can I edit the "main" part ? Since it's not working in the css ? Really hope to hear from someone ;)

I searched your source, and couldn't even find your bg.jpg anywhere in the document.

Inside of that portion you posted, it says this:

NOTE: These CSS definitions are stored within the main page body so that you can use the phpBB2 theme administration centre. When you have finalised your style you could cut the final CSS code and place it in an external file, deleting this section to save bandwidth.

So, what I'm guessing is that you should go into your theme administration center and take out all of the CSS that is posted and showing up on your boards in lieu of the CSS that you've customized. Once you've removed all of those defaults, your board should look the way you've called it to in freeMind.css.

Hmm .... ok so I THINK I get what your saying not too sure. Anyway, this site (http://rihannaboards.com/index/) uses the same theme and like you said their css (http://rihannaboards.com/index/templates/freeMind/freeMind.css) is default but when you look at their source it's not. These boards (http://lagunabeachfans.fan-sites.org/forums/) too have their css dafault but when u view their source you can see what they put. (Although they use a different theme).

Well, my question is (because I don't really understand) is how or where do I put my coding ...? And have it look (like there's) when you view the source? Do I have to re-code everything or just the background and everything else will be done through the default css? (ie: table colours, etc).

I go to my ACP and go to styles admin and click "management". I got the background color fixed, but don't know how to put my image. I put it where it says "background-image" but when I put "bg.jpg" it still doesn't show. I even tried the whole url but nope still a no-show. But I'm going to "assume" there's some other way to do this since I have to add other things right ... like background-repeat, etc. And change the links (like no underline, etc).

Hope this isn't confusing and someone can help lol :o Thanks for all your help ;)

Sorry, I don't know much else about what to do.. I've never set up message boards before. Hopefully someone else can help you. :)

THANKS for all your help :D

I think I figured it out , I have to edit everything in the overall_header.tpl file, lol.

Thanks, though :)