I posted this in the Themes forums but did not get a reply and I am desperate


Complete Beginer, 2 issues
Hi, As the title says, I am a complete beginer at XOOPS and theme design. I have very limited HTML/CSS skills. I know nothing about PHP, JS, etc.

I am trying to stuggle though customising my XOOPS site and am running into problems.

1. Whilst playing around, trying to understand how to control and manipluate the theme, I entered some bits of code that now for some reason will not go away. for example I enteres some text (TEST TEST TEST) in the headerbar. Even tho I have deleted it, saved it and re-uploaded it. It is still there!


2. I want to set a background image in the headerbanner tb. I have tried the following

background="header_background.jpg"
style="background-image: url(header_background.jpg)"
and in the style.css
"background-image: url(header_background.jpg)"

none of these options work and they seem to be affected by problem 1.

Any ideas? I am a total newbie.. so be gentle

Go to Admin >> Preferences >> General Settings and set Yes to: "Update module template .html files from themes/your theme/templates directory?"

Another point to remember ... When you make changes, especially to images, they don't always change when you view in the browser! Why? You need to clear your browser cache, ie delete all history content. Browsers often pull stored images out of the cache in preference to displaying new content from the server. There is a browser setting you can change on this. Also remember to delete all files (except index) in templates_c directory on your server. Especially when you are making changes to templates.

For more information on theme building, CSS and basic tutorials visit the docs site below.

Richard

wow! thanks!

That simple setting solved both problems.

Thank you very much!!