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Hi Daniel,

can you be a bit more specific?

Are you talking about the background-color that is wonky or did you want to insert a background image that isn't showing up?

Also, if you provide a link to your site (if that's OK with you), I could see what it looks like. Or is it the one linked through your name in the forum here (which is showing me a plain index list at the moment)?

Volkher

P.S.: I'm not that great at fixing things myself as you can see from my spamming this forum with problems, but I can try.

As far as I can tell, you don't mean the background but the header logo, right?

Check this first:

a) Do you have a file called logo.php in the Elemental folder on your server? (this file is in Elemental\lib\styles\images)

b) Did you set a checkmark at "use custom header" in the Options menu? If you have "Hide header logo and text (only use background image)" checked, nothing will show up. So uncheck that.

Note: I'm gone for two hours now. Gives you time to play around with the settings in the options menu. If a header shows up and it's NOT yours (I had that problem), FTP it your header over to the directory I mentioned above.

Good luck.

Volkher

Ah, now I get it. I think you confused me with someone who works here.
The demo has that background, my site doesn't:
http://livingwithmusic.com
I have a simple gray background.

Are you working with a child theme?

I guess not.

Check the appearence menu on the left.
Go to editor.
Load layout.css by clicking on the bottom right side (end of the long list of files you can change).

Check this setting:

#page {
	background:url(lib/styles/images/bg.png);
	color:#111;
	padding:5px 0 0 0;
}

Bg.png is that beige background.

Thanks Deuce62! Your the best and I do want to install a child theme and it isn't obvious to configure, believe me! Every mod I try doesn't show up on the main page. Is that because I have to modify the style.css? Thanks!

Hey Volkher - thanks for all the help here :)

Daniel - what part about creating a child theme isn't obvious? We have got a demo child theme called Blue Sky that you can download as a starting point for your child theme. It will show you how to get things set up. The download is in question 7 of the FAQ section on this page - http://prothemedesign.com/support/elemental-help/

You also say "Every mod I try doesn't show up on the main page" but you don't say what mods are or what you have tried. If you could give us as much info as possible then we will do our best to help you :)

strange, plugins should work fine. Could you give me a link to the plugin so I can try it for myself? Do you mean this one?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/

There are quite a few blog posts about child themes, but there's no central location for them. I've been thinking about writing some more on them myself, especially since I use them so much.

What sort of things would you like to see written about them?