HTML and CSS

I'm really getting quite excited about the various background images I think I'm going to create and it makes sense to give you guys a quick tutorial on how to use them.

Basically you only need to make a one line change to the stylesheet of your website, so I hope it won't be too difficult to do.

Your stylesheet will typically be called style.css or default.css although other names could be used. Also, if you're using blogspot you won't actually have a separate stylesheet just to confuse matters. Hopefully you'll be able to work with these background images without too much difficulty.

So, once you're looking at your website stylesheet, simply search for the body element. This will most likely be somewhere close to the top.

Next, add this line

background: transparent url(path-to-image/caramel-chevron.png) repeat;

You'll need to change the 'path-to-image' part to the url of the folder where your images are stored, and of course you'll need to change the name of the background image if you aren't the caramel chevron.

That's it, your website should now be showing your new background. Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions.

Being an amateur theme designer I'm always apprehensive when a new browser is released, and Firefox 3 was no exception. They always seem to make some minor changes that make regular HTML or CSS work slightly differently.

From reading some of the minor problems that have been discovered with FF3 I think I need to go back and check all my themes, but I'm in two minds whether to actually fix anything I find since so many people are not likely to update to FF3 for a few more months.

It would of course be great if FF2 would automatically update to version 3, but I think a lot of people will have auto update turned off so not sure how long it will take, and if the IE world is anything to go on, probably several months or more until the majority of firefox users have updated.

If anyone else is developing themes, could you let me know if you plan to support ff3, or if you're also planning to wait for a bit longer?

And for anyone who who is still using Firefox 2, please, go check it out and download firefox 3 now! It really is much better and more stable than previous versions.