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Stphnwrt
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Dec 9, 2007, 12:39 AM

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Hi, I've been playing around with search engine here and am trying to change the look of the search form. I am trying to get an image tiled for background. I made the changes in Dreamweaver and all looked fine locally, but once the template search_form.html was uploaded the background doesn't show up. I am pretty sure the code is probably wrong but I don't know html. What am I doing wrong? Any help,please?

<html>
<head>
<title>$_search_title$ Search Results</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-image: url(../../public_html/cgi-bin/backgrounds/background.gif);
}
-->
</style></head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" marginwidth="15" marginheight="15" topmargin="15" leftmargin="15">
<style>
<!--
.maintext {font-family:arial,sans-serif}
.f,.f:link,.f a:link {font-family:arial,sans-serif; color:#6f6f6f}
//-->
</style>


(This post was edited by Stphnwrt on Dec 9, 2007, 12:41 AM)


Dave
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Dec 9, 2007, 9:38 AM

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Re: [Stphnwrt] customising templates [In reply to] Can't Post
The image url works on your local machine but not your server because the paths are different. Also, images often don't display in the cgi-bin. Try find the image by itself on your website with your browser. eg: http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/backgrounds/background.gif

If it's there but you get an error, try moving it out of the cgi-bin. eg:
http://www.example.com/backgrounds/background.gif

Then use a absolute url or absolute path instead. Either:

http://www.example.com/backgrounds/background.gif

or

/backgrounds/background.gif

Let me know if that works. :)

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
 


Stphnwrt
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Dec 9, 2007, 12:33 PM

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Re: [Dave] customising templates [In reply to] Can't Post
Cool, thanks. That worked great. created a new directory under main search directory called background, added the bg image and directed the url to it and it works.