July 5th, 2009 | 
Author: Does anyone know how you get those customised backgrounds on wordpress. All i can seem to get is the ones they provide. Can someone help me pleaseeeeeeeeeee?
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Does anyone know how you get those customised backgrounds on wordpress. All i can seem to get is the ones they provide. Can someone help me pleaseeeeeeeeeee?
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If you are using Wordpress.com, there is no way to do that.
There is in fact ways to to this. I would recommend that you went into the CSS script and edited the body background colour. It’ll be something like:
body {
background: #333333;
}
Simply edit this code into the background, and this will change the background colour of the blog. You can do this via the CSS edit part of the Dashboard I believe. Or you can FTP the CSS file onto your PC and edit it via Notepad++ or something.
You can either do this, or if you have the ability, make your own WordPress theme. This can be easily done by making a theme and embeding the WordPress PHP in the HTML code you have built. Place the HTML into the code around the PHP to the WordPress bits appear in the content section of the page (you may wish to delete the header, footer and sidebar otherwise it could mess things up). Then place a link to the CSS in the HTML so it uses your CSS script, orjust replace theirs with yours.
-Max
There are certain themes that will allow you to change the color or you can do this as Max suggested above. Also some of the themes allow for you to add a custom logo. This is provided you can design one or know someone who can do this for you.
Your best bet is to get a cheap host provider, some are 4.95 a month and buy a .info at godaddy for .99 a year then you can have access to awesome themes or create your own.
Lina
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