Changing the basic background style

donheff

Joined: 2003-04-29
Posts: 22
Posted: Tue, 2004-10-26 23:09

If I could understand this stuff I am sure my question has been answered. But I am a bit confused and what I want to do is probably quite simple so I will throw myself on your mercy. I helped a high school senior create a gallery of her art work for portfolio presentation at colleges. I set it up with the default (pale green) look and gave her permissions to modify her albums. She set the background color of her albums to black, which looks nice. (http://www.heffernans.org/~art/). She would like the gallery albums page (entry page) to have a black background as well. The "Black" skin adds pipes and grey highlighting that are not what she wants. She would like it to look like her albums.

I looked at standalone_styl.css_default in the /gallery directory and tried copying that to standalone_style.css and messing around with that (I don't know the syntax for style sheets) to no avail.

any simple instructions to do what I am describing?

Thanks,

Don
 
fryfrog

Joined: 2002-10-30
Posts: 3236
Posted: Tue, 2004-10-26 23:57

First of all, you will need to be messing around with the .css files IN the skin you have choosen's dir. That is probably the only thing that you are doing wrong.

For instance, I took the default skin and copied it to "fryfrog" (skins/default -> skins/fryfrog). I then edited the file skins/fryfrog/css/standalone_style.css and modified the ... example below: The color is kind of grayish.

BODY
        {
                background-color: #D6D3D6;
                color: #000000;
        }
 
donheff

Joined: 2003-04-29
Posts: 22
Posted: Wed, 2004-10-27 10:53
fryfrog wrote:
First of all, you will need to be messing around with the .css files IN the skin you have choosen's dir. That is probably the only thing that you are doing wrong.

For instance, I took the default skin and copied it to "fryfrog" (skins/default -> skins/fryfrog). I then edited the file skins/fryfrog/css/standalone_style.css and modified the ... example below: The color is kind of grayish.

BODY
        {
                background-color: #D6D3D6;
                color: #000000;
        }

Thanks fryfrog. I checked out the skins directory but there is no skin for "none" which I am using. Does that mean I should just edit the standalone_style.css sheet under gallery/css? If so, do I need to remove the standalone_style.css.default sheet, or can I leave it there?

Finally, about the syntax. In html I would use bgcolor="000000" text="FFFFFF". In the style sheet function you show above is "background-color" the same as "bgcolor" and "color:" the same as "text"?

Don
 
donheff

Joined: 2003-04-29
Posts: 22
Posted: Thu, 2004-10-28 01:57

I solved my problem. Either I needed to remove the default standalone page when I put my customized one up, or I wasn't saving the changes or something. In any event, after I saw fryfrog's confirmation that I was heading in the right direction, I RTFM(s) about css and went back to it.

Thanks,

Don
 
fryfrog

Joined: 2002-10-30
Posts: 3236
Posted: Thu, 2004-10-28 02:18

Glad you got it working for ya :)

Would you mind sharing a URL, I dont think I've ever seen gallery with no skin applied :)
 
Gaile

Joined: 2002-07-20
Posts: 1301
Posted: Sat, 2004-10-30 03:40
fryfrog wrote:
... I dont think I've ever seen gallery with no skin applied :)

You're kidding, right? :P

Gaile
 
fryfrog

Joined: 2002-10-30
Posts: 3236
Posted: Sat, 2004-10-30 06:39

No, seriously... I didn't realize there was a "None" skin, I always assumed the quite ugly default skin was the "default" skin :)
 
jasperguy

Joined: 2003-05-04
Posts: 10
Posted: Sun, 2007-05-06 08:32

Can I change it to an image?

 
pelinga

Joined: 2007-05-22
Posts: 26
Posted: Wed, 2007-05-23 08:05

you can try

Quote:
BODY
{
background-image: url(background.gif);
background-color: #D6D3D6;
color: #000000;
}

http://www.lisisoft.com/