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Background image styles
Adding a background image and locking the width of the design.
In this tutorial, Alexander Limi will show you how to take a default Plone site and put a totally different look on it. (Not updated for Plone 3.0 yet)
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Next up, we'll add a background image to the site, as well as locking the width to 840 pixels. Add the following to your CSS and refresh:
/* The background + logo styles */
body {
background: url(bg_light.gif);
width: 840px;
margin: auto;
}
#visual-portal-wrapper {
margin: 20px;
background-color: white;
padding: 0 20px 20px 20px;
}
#portal-logo {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 2em;
}
One of the things worth paying attention to here is the margin: auto part. This is the way you generally center things in CSS, and a lot of people don't know that — they expect there to be a float: center or something similar. Now you know how to do it, and if you refresh, your site will look like this:
Amazing what adding a simple background does to the design, isn't it? Onwards!
by
Alexander Limi
—
last modified
September 29, 2006 - 07:21
Contributors:
David Convent, Reinout Van Rees
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