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    • Re: How do I change the main background image? Boreal

    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    Boreal's style sheet (a cascading style sheets file which contains the color and other style information for the Boreal theme) is located in the styles subdirectory of your Tiki installation. This location is also written like "styles/boreal.css" with the slash indicating a lower directory (folder) level. The second line of boreal.css file is currently

    background-image: url(boreal/bg.jpg);

    To change the background image, edit what's in the parentheses of that line to the url of your new background image, relative to the location of boreal.css (probably something like "../show_image.php?id=331" (the initial two dots are important, as they say to go up in the directory hierarchy) if the image is in a gallery, or use the full url (more properly called the absolute url), such as "http://www.example.com/show_image.php?id=331". (I've never used a Tiki image gallery url in a stylesheet, but assume it will work ok.) See http://www.ibdhost.com/help/path/Question for more info about how to indicate the url, if necessary.

    If you're using a Tiki 2 release, you will need to download boreal.css to your local computer with an ftp program, edit it as I indicated, and then upload it again to its original location. (Tiki does have an on-site css editing feature, but it's not working in TikiWiki 2.0, 2.1, or 2.2 as far as I know.)

    Good luck and post again if you have any problems with this.

    -- Gary

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