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";