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Studiopress premium theme-How to change Background?

by warrioronfire
8 replies
Hi guys,

I need help changing the background on the lifestyle studio press theme. I saw a tutorial on how to change it to a mono color. But what I what to do is customize it using patterns and gradients on my image editor. How would I be able to do that? The bg.gif file won't change when in the images folder when I try to customize it. Where is the background file located?..How would I be able to Change it and customize using gradients, etc?

Will hit thankyou button to anyone who can help.

Thanks
#background #change #premium #studiopress #themehow
  • Profile picture of the author Taylor French
    The background file is probably located under the images folder of the theme itself. If you don't see the change, the image may be cached. Load your blog, right click, and view the background. Then hit reload. If the image doesn't change, you put it in the wrong location. If it does, just hit the back button to go back to your blog and you should see it there.
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  • Profile picture of the author matts5150
    just swap out bg.jpg with your photoshoped jpg in the images folder with your own.
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    • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
      In the latest version of the Lifestyle theme you can adjust the background settings in the CSS Stylesheet.

      Code:
      body {
	background: #E2DDCB;
	width: 980px;
	color: #333333;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	margin: 0px auto 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
      If you want to use an image, just add that to the background part of the code:
      Code:
      body {
	background: #E2DDCB url(images/bg.png);
	width: 980px;
	color: #333333;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	margin: 0px auto 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
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      • Profile picture of the author warrioronfire
        Originally Posted by VegasGreg View Post

        In the latest version of the Lifestyle theme you can adjust the background settings in the CSS Stylesheet.

        Code:
        body {
    background: #E2DDCB;
    width: 980px;
    color: #333333;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
    margin: 0px auto 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    }
        If you want to use an image, just add that to the background part of the code:
        Code:
        body {
    background: #E2DDCB url(images/bg.png);
    width: 980px;
    color: #333333;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
    margin: 0px auto 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    }
        Thankyou! Answer I was looking for
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        • Profile picture of the author warrioronfire
          Can You also tell me how to change the color of the go button for 'search' and 'events' and updates? Thanks
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          • Profile picture of the author txconx
            Originally Posted by warrioronfire View Post

            Can You also tell me how to change the color of the go button for 'search' and 'events' and updates? Thanks
            I'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to programming but I am pretty good at taking what someone else has done, tearing it apart and putting it back together - learning in the process so I can do it again, only faster.

            Here's what I did/sometimes still have to do:

            Go through the style.css file and identify the font and background colors. Typically, there are only a couple of colors used.

            If you want to know exactly what each section is, go through and change a ONE color setting to red - then refresh the site and find the red. Then change the color back and move on to the next color - rinse and repeat.

            I make a Word file and take screen shots so I know exactly what each section of the CSS does.

            You'll find after a couple of these, you can actually get pretty good at "reading" the CSS file and you don't have to go through the whole process. Short of taking a class on CSS, I've found it a pretty good way of learning how people put these together.

            Scaling it up - I select the colors I want for the new site. If the theme has 4 primary colors, I select 4 new primary colors. Then I copy/paste the CSS into Word and do a global search/replace for each color I'm replacing. Then I copy/paste back into the theme editor. Very easy.

            I know some of you are probably ROFL at how elementary this is but hey - some of us learn better this way! ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    studiopress has a support forum which should give you all of the answers you need and don't they also provide technical support to licensed users... unless you didn't actually buy the theme.
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    • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
      Originally Posted by warrioronfire View Post

      Can You also tell me how to change the color of the go button for 'search' and 'events' and updates? Thanks
      Those you have to replace the images with new images of the color you want.
      topnav.png - headline.png - navbar.png

      You can scan through the CSS Stylesheet and see where all settings are if you want to.

      Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

      studiopress has a support forum which should give you all of the answers you need and don't they also provide technical support to licensed users... unless you didn't actually buy the theme.
      Yes, their support forum is top notch and for paid members only.
      Unfortunately there are a lot of people who sell these themes and provide NO support for them (They are open source, technically). Though some people sell them for the same price as you can get them WITH support straight from STudioPress.

      Also, people get these themes from buying sites from flippers. The flippers should supply support for their sites, but not all of them do. I do and that is probably why 90% of all my site buyers come back for more.
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