Few Questions

[Fluxas]

Hey guys, I have a few noob questions =)

Okay so I'm more of a flash developer never really looked into web design but this seems like a good template for me to make a website I want to design.

I want to keep the template design but with a few changes.

1. How do I change the logo to my own.
2. How do I change the background/general colour theme.
3. What software should I use for this?
4. Is it possible to set the limit of the uploaded images to 20kb. (Good reasons =P)

 

[old_Pulseeey]

1. content/themes/Peafowl/header.php you should see <img src="<?php show_theme_imgdir(); ?>logo.png" alt="Chevereto" /> change that to your own url or just replace logo.png in the theme-img folder.
2. In style.css

You should see,
body {
background: url(./theme-img/bliss.png) no-repeat center top;
color: #333;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 120%;
}

html {
background: url(./theme-img/background.png) repeat-x;
}

I think they handle the backgrounds, i can't really remember as i haven't edited that theme in a while.

3. What do you mean? If you want to create logo's etc, Photoshop but not sure what you meant. 😛
4. Yes, config.php in includes folder lets you change max upload file 20KB is not a lot, do you mean MB?

 

[Rodolfo]

Just to add to the pulseeey reply (which is pretty complete)

1. How do I change the logo to my own.

Either you change the file content/themes/Peafowl/theme-img/logo.png or you edit content/themes/Peafowl/header.php template file to point to a different image, here:

<a href="<?php show_base_url(); ?>"><img src="<?php show_theme_imgdir(); ?>logo.png" alt="Chevereto" /></a>

2. How do I change the background/general colour theme.

Edit the content of the CSS rule in content/themes/Peafowl/style.css

html {
    background: url(./theme-img/background.png) repeat-x;
}
 
body {
    background: url(./theme-img/bliss.png) no-repeat center top;
    color: #333;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 15px;
    line-height: 120%;
}

3. What software should I use for this?

For code editing you can use:

• Notepad++, SublimeText, Dreamweaver, Notepad, Wordpad (Windows)
• Espresso, Coda, Smultron, TextMate (OS X)
• Nano, Vi, SublimeText, etc (Linux)

For image/logo editing:

• Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, etc... (all the adobe goodies)

4. Is it possible to set the limit of the uploaded images to 20kb. (Good reasons =P)

Sure, in the includes/config.php file use this:

$config['max_filesize'] = "20 KB";