Changing colors in proVista


Changing colors in proVista

Postby geneb19 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:55 pm

I know it's probably a very simple edit job, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the background color from the light blue default to a light gray. I'm using proVista as the forum style because it does everything I want it to do. (Fantastic job of designing it!!! I was almost ready to give up when I found it. Just glad I checked out that "last style".) In addition I'm using Carbon as my Gallery2 theme and would like them to match as closely as possible.

Any help on pointing me to the right files to edit would be greatly appreciated! I was able to change the bg.jpg images to ones of my own design with no issue. I am trying to match the color of the "mid-section background" to the upper and bottom images.

Thanks for such a great style...Gene

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby Helter » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:38 pm

the background is made up of 2 images
the main image is proVista/theme/images/bg.jpg
and proVista/theme/images/btm_bg.jpg
the background color is found in proVista/theme/proVista.css

html, body {
background-image: url(./images/bg.jpg);
background-position: top center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #D3E2E9;
height: 100%;
}

#footbg {
position: relative; bottom: 0; left: auto; right: auto;
background: url('./images/btm_bg.png' );
margin-top: 0px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color:#D3E2E9;
width: 100%;
}

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby geneb19 » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:42 pm

Ok, once again being dense I guess. I changed the color in the proVista.css file to the desired color of #D6D6D6, cleared the cache, reloaded the page and still it comes up as #D3E2E9 even though the file shows the changes I made. Any other suggestions? I'm attaching a screen cap of what I'm talking about. The "blue" still shows in the mid-section of the board.

Thanks again,
Gene

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby Helter » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:44 pm

sometimes phpbb3 has a sticky cache. go to acp/styles
select "Themes" "refresh", go to your index and on your keyboard press ctrl+F5 for a hard refresh

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby geneb19 » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:15 am

Yes! Worked like a charm. Thanks a million man. I really appreciate this! It's still not the color I actually want BUT that's my fault not yours. lol It is however, the color I set it to now.

Once again...fantastic style and it's going to be the only one I use.

Take care...Gene

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby Helter » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:36 am

thx for the feedback. :)

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby lurch » Wed May 28, 2008 8:38 pm

Hey - sorry to dredge up an old thread, but...

That area he's pointing to; instead of just a colour, is it possible to have a repeated, centered images instead?
ie: if i take a sliver of my bg.jpg, say 2px high, and save it as bg_body.jpg - how can i get that to repeat all the way down till we hit the footer?

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Re: Changing colors in proVista

Postby Helter » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:41 pm

no, sorry, its not as simple as that. If you do it that way, it will repeat above the header and below the footer.

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