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Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:04 am**

Script URL: http://www.thewiltseyway.com/mboard/mboard.php
Version of script: downloaded yesterday 03/02/2006
Version of PHP: ?
Hosting company: ranchoweb.com
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If you go to the above URL you'll see that I'm kind of stuck. I've read everything that I can find (and understand) about .css and I don't understand much.

I would like to have the message board match the rest of my website: http://www.thewiltseyway.com, with the top, links and the links down the right side. I'm not quite sure how to do this.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Kathleen

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:34 pm**

You have to place the html you now have in the body section of a standard layout from one of your pages in the header.txt and footer.txt file provided with the mboard script.

In the header.txt file this would be in your case:
Start with: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="table1"> and end with: <td width="98%"> (This is just before <font face="Verdana" size="2">February 27, 2006</font><p>)

In the footer.txt file this would be in your case:
Start with: </td><td width="1%"> </td></tr></table> (this is after where you normally place text in your page) and end with: </table> (this is just before the </body> tag, don't include the </body> tag).

To set you background, you have the edit the style.css file.
First you have the split the BODY, TD section.
Because i don;t see you using css-styles in your page I'll explain.
In the css file styles for displaying elements of your page are set. The BODY,TD {...} section set styles for both BODY and TD's in your page. But you only want a background for your BODY, therefor you have to split. To do this, copy the whole BODY,TD {...} section and in the first section delete ,TD and with the second section delete BODY, it will now look like this:

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BODY {
	color : black;
	font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
}

TD {
	color : black;
	font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
}

Now add the link for the background-image to the body section like you have already done, it will look like this

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BODY, TD {
	color : black;
	font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background-image: url(http://www.thewiltseyway.com/bgdsgldtree2.jpg);
	font-size: 11px;
}

To learn more about css styles use the following site a lot to see the different css style options: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

I hope this helps you.

Greetings,
Henrie

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