Changing the color of the head.tpl where the xlogo.gif goes
 

Can anyone tell me how to change just the color of the top part of the customer page, where the xlogo.gif normally goes? Also, I'd like to possbily use a checkeredflag.gif, and have it run across the entire background up on top. Is there a way to have it in the background up on top so that the speed bar still shows up over it?
I would like to use the checkeredflag.gif file and be able to use it as a tile where it spreads across the whole top part.

Color Change
 

Most of your color changing can be controlled from the skin1.css file.

actually
 

Actually, it's not in the .css file. I ended up adding bgcolor="white" to the head.tpl file inside the first TABLE command. It made the header white, while the rest of the "body" of my store is grey, which was set in the css file. So the top of your head file should look something like this:


With your color substituted for the word white. Did the trick for me :)