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[NickC]

Hi

I want to add a wallpaper to background of my site, where do i need to go to find location of file to alter site. i.e which template or css do i need to change?

Hope i made sense.

Many thanks

Nick

[pauldodman]

There is really only 1 css file skin1.css. Just alter the background class.
This may also help.
http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=28546

[Asiaplay]

NickC,

Just incase you are really new - you can find the css1.css file by logging onto your X-Cart Admin and choosing Administration -> Edit Templates (and clicking on CSS file (skin1.css) )

Where you see the following - change the colour code to the colour you want ie: "#EEEEEE" change to "#ABCD12"-

[i]HTML,BODY {
HEIGHT: 100%;
MARGIN: 0px;
PADDING: 0px;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #EEEEEE;[i]

Note: you can search the web to get a list of html colour codes or if you have photoshop open the colour selector palette and you will see the code for the colour you are on there.

Hope is helpful - cheers, Asiaplay

[NickC]

Hi

Thanks Guys, You are right I am As new as they come ! Thanks for the pointers to where in css file to look, trying to get my head around where and what to change in the css file and what parts of the site it all realaites to. Starting to realise most of it, except one. Really struggling to find what to edit in order to change category index colours. How is this labled in css. (is it vertmenu?).

Just got to say how good this forum is, another great reason to have bought x-cart (total suck up, but its true.. )

Last question, which template relates to the 'enter website' page before you get to home page?

Cheers all and here to all the other newbee's out there spending every hour on the learning curve to become master of x-cart..!

NickC

[pauldodman]

Originally Posted by NickC

Hi

Last question, which template relates to the 'enter website' page before you get to home page?

NickC

That isn't a template, it is index.html, a standard html page, which is usually best removed, simply by deleting it.

[NickC]

Hi

Does it have any search engine advantages having that page?

NickC

[carpeperdiem]

Originally Posted by NickC

Does it have any search engine advantages having that page?

Quite the contrary... a landing page typically works against you, since your primary content (your store) is not your landing page.

Search the forum for threads about putting xcart into your root directory, or "move to root" for TONS of discussion on this, techniques, etc... This has been discussed countless times.

While you're at it, change your forum user prefs to join the "advanced" search group. This will enable boolean search functions.

Hope this helps.

Jeremy

[NickC]

Hi

Back to the background again, what do i need to input to have a wallpapered background (i.e image instead of coloured back ground)?

Is there also codingscript to make imge tile across background?

Cheers

NickC

[inebriate]

background-image: url('backgroundimage.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat;

[balinor]

You'll need to code it with the images subfolder so:

background: url(images/backgroundimage.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;

Put the image in the skin1/images folder