Joomla Templates

I am a newbie to JoomlaBear and specifically to the mentioned theme. By default, the template allow users to make changes to the background. I would like to know where I can go to remove that feature and lock down to one background. Thanks.

I'm new too, but I think if you go to the template manager and click on the name of the template, then under "show frontend image selector" choose "hide all" and under "image options" choose the image that you'd like, it should work.

Thanks for the post eipnvn - great to see people helping each other out - and yes that is completely correct - you can modify it in template parameters.

Cheers

Big Bear

I uploaded six of my own images/thumbs. They look really good, except ... I remember the "stock" images would stretch across the screen and mine won't. Any ideas (other than resizing the files huge)?

I'm not exactly sure how to get them to stretch, I just had to resize mine larger, and then lower the quality as a .jpg so that the file size wouldn't be too huge. I'd love to know how to stretch too, or even better for what I'm doing, I'd love to know how to center the background image on the screen.

Hi,

You can't stretch background images with html - you can with embedded images in content by giving them a height width larger than the actual dimensions (not recommended under any circumstances) background images do not have dimensions set explicitly.

You'll either want to start with very large images - 1280x1024 would give you an image that will fill most screens sizes - 19 inch and below. But you can do some cool things with smaller images to- such as using photoshop to create a gradient on the edge of an image fading to a color. Then set the background color of the page to match the color you have faded to and the background will appear seamless.

The default background on transparent bliss demo is like this - image of the sun that transitions to dark red.

This is a good option as it will look good on larger screens to.

The other option is to use a tiling background image.

Hope this helps.

I decided to blow up the images to 1500 wide and then save them very highly compressed, since they are being used as backgrounds only the details are not that important. I ended up being able to get a 1500x1000 file to just around 100kb and it's still reasonable presentable. The JPG artifacting just makes it look like an artsy effect was applied. Thanks for getting back so quick. I'll toy around with the template more later. Good potential in that one.