Altering Forum Background

[Tony]

I remember a tutorial being available on FC, but I haven't seen it re-posted here on WebFlake quite yet..
 
I'm looking to alter my entire forum background. Currently using IPB 3.4.2, with the Simplify 3.4.x skin.
 
As shown below, I'd like to take the background image and have it display ONLY on the outside of the red lines (basically, I don't want it to display inside the main content area). I'd like to move it to the header area as well, but I'll get to that.. taking this one edit at a time.
 
I've made the following edit to ipb_styles.css:

body{position: relative;background: #000 url(My URL HERE) no-repeat;}

 
 
 

[Justin™]

Find this in your ipb_styles.css: {Example taken from default skin}

#content {	background: #fff;	padding: 10px 10px;	line-height: 120%;	-webkit-box-shadow: 0 5px 9px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);	-moz-box-shadow: 0 5px 9px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);	box-shadow: 0 5px 9px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);}

And add a background color or image.

[Tony]

Appreciate the response.. as it turns out, that was a horrible idea to try though.. adding a background image looks horrible. 

[Justin™]

Generally, I use a semi transparent background image that pretty much complements the body background image. I'll pm them to you so you can try them out.

[Tony]

Got the images, and doing some tinkering.. I'll see what I can come up with. Thanks, J!

[Evarni]

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