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Nikolaj

Posted on 12-22-09 07:37 PM (rev. 6 of 01-02-10 11:36 PM)

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I want to set my Layout Background to this:

But I can't figure out how.
BTW: I tried Google.

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Edit again: I do not like bright backgrounds

Edit 3: wtf font tag...

Trelior

Posted on 12-22-09 08:30 PM

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Try viewing the source on the profiles of the guys with background images. Good examples I would think to look at would be: Teyla, Stark, Bukkarooo, and CyclopsCaveman.

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Posted on 12-22-09 08:38 PM

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I tried, but i could'nt seem to find out...

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Posted on 12-22-09 08:41 PM

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I feared for the readability of your posts when this thread started, and now I only fear it more.

I could help you, but I don't want to anymore.

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Nikolaj

Posted on 12-22-09 08:45 PM

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Posted by Kawa
I feared for the readability of your posts when this thread started, and now I only fear it more.

I could help you, but I don't want to anymore.

What?

Mega-Mario

Posted on 12-22-09 09:02 PM (rev. 2 of 12-22-09 09:04 PM)

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That's a nice background, but you'll need a translucent box in front of it to make your posts more readable. Like my layout.

I'd give you my layout code, but it's quite complicated, and uses a stylesheet, so I fear that you may have trouble understanding it.

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Kawa

Posted on 12-22-09 09:04 PM

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I was thinking of something simpler: black text.

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Posted by Kawa
I was thinking of something simpler: black text.

It can work too, since the background is not too busy.

But busier backgrounds will require a translucent box.

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Kawa

Posted on 12-22-09 09:07 PM

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Which this is not.

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blackhole89

Posted on 12-23-09 01:58 AM (rev. 2 of 12-23-09 02:01 AM)

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I'd say that bright background based layouts are frowned upon as they clash with the board's themes badly, but that probably would be an invalid generalization that doesn't even necessarily reflect the opinion of all staff, let alone the users. So I guess I'll just say...

I frown upon bright background based layouts.

That being said, the canonical way for doing it is having some kind of block element enclose your whole post through the header/footer and attach a background image to it, like

<table border=0 cellspacing=0 width=100% height=100%
style=padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px;background-image:url('http://your.domain/image.jpg')><tr><td>

in the header and

</td></tr></table>

in the footer.

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Posted on 12-23-09 05:57 PM

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Here's another example if you'd like to put a picture or whatever at the right of your posts:

Post header:

<table border=0 cellspacing=[the space you want between the text and the post's border] cellpadding=0><tr><td style="vertical-align:middle;">

Post signature:

</td><td style="vertical-align:middle; width=[the width of your right-side content]px;">[whatever you want here]</td></tr></table>

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Nikolaj

Posted on 12-23-09 06:43 PM

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Posted by blackhole89
I'd say that bright background based layouts...

It does'nt show up for some reason.

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Posted on 12-23-09 06:47 PM

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width=100% height=100%style=

Is that your reason? You forgot a space between "100%" and "style".

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Posted on 12-23-09 07:01 PM (rev. 2 of 12-23-09 07:02 PM)

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Works, but there are two problems:
1. Links are hard to read on your background. However, you can't change their color without a div with an unique class name and a stylesheet inserted in your post header.
2. The background doesn't fill the whole post box when the post is short. But it isn't a big deal.

For the first problem, for some reason, height=100% type solutions won't fix it. May be due to the lack of doctype in the board's pages.

I had to add a "height:300px;" to get around it in my layout.

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Posted on 12-23-09 07:01 PM

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Posted by Mega-Mario
Links are hard to read on your background.

Another good reason to use a dark image.

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Nikolaj

Posted on 12-23-09 07:12 PM (rev. 2 of 12-23-09 07:12 PM)

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What about this background?

Kawa

Posted on 12-23-09 07:13 PM

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That's much better. The green is not the best choice, but it works. And the links look fine.

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Mega-Mario

Posted on 12-23-09 07:25 PM (rev. 2 of 12-23-09 07:26 PM)

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Agreed. It fits the board's theme better.

But it still doesn't fit the whole post box when the post is short. Just add a height="300" instead of height="100%", it should work.

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Kawa

Posted on 12-23-09 07:26 PM

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You mean height.

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Mega-Mario

Posted on 12-23-09 07:27 PM

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Posted by Kawa
You mean height.

Fixed. Thank you

You kept me from making him do a big mistake.

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