changing the background color...

[Vitis]

Hi everyone again,
I'm trying to find out how to change the background border around my whole indexu from white to #330066.
I'm not certain but it seems like this white is actually a .gif setting in the css but I'm not good at css or anything else really and could use some help at changing it. I've tried changing most every css thingy majiggy from white to the color above but gave up trying.

I'm using the cleandex theme if that makes any difference.
Thanks in advance for the great support you folks have been giving me!
Michel
vitisearch.com

[Bruceper]

in /cleandex/images/ you will find a file called bgr.gif

You can either change the color of this image or edit styles.css

Old

body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
color: #000;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Times, sans-serif;
line-height:14px;
background-image: url(images/bgr.gif);
background-position: center;
}

New

body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
color: #000;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Times, sans-serif;
line-height:14px;
background-position: center;
background: #F0F0F0;
}

[Vitis]

Como esta Bruce?
Do you know the benefit of using the image.gif instead of just changing the css stylesheet like you list above?
If I can change the color, it doesn't really matter, but you know me....(grin)
Thanks,
M

[Bruceper]

No benefit that I'm aware of.

However, a quick check of the cleandex theme and of indexu shows that bgr.gif only shows up in one place which is styles.css.

So you should be able to change either the image or the background and have the same effect.

[Vitis]

It appears that the bgr.gif doesn't even exist...so it's really just printing a background image of a broken image which is white....

Turns out that I can't use this to simply change the border around my whole indexu anyway because it changes a lot more than just that outside border to the new color, and I'd have to modify all the images that cleandex uses and table backgrounds, etc....to make it look good. Seems like I'm sticking with white. I would like to have a white background with just a 3-d white grape cluster image or very faint VitiSearch text background but don't know how to produce one. I use cool-text to make simple logos, just fyi, but that doesn't work for what I need.

Thanks again, though! I am happy to learn where the setting is, at least....and thanks also for the keywords changing info....
Michel

[Bruceper]

It exists in my cleandex theme.

Once upon a time I could have made this file if I saw it was missing. But at this time I have no idea if I did or not.

Glad to help.