Background Image on the Home Page Only

[mcp]

Morning All

I wonder if anyone out there can shed some light on a frustration of mine?

I have got two sites on the go at the moment both using a background image imported from my Dreamweaver pages.

The first site needs to have the background image on all pages - I have it on all the product pages and all of the brochure pages except the home page - where it most important.

The other site has a background image on the home page only which shows in Actinic but not on upload to the web.

Is this a 'home page' issue? Do I need to do something different for the homepage?

I am sorry if this has been answered somewhere else, I have searched the forums and found a fair few threads on Background images but none that seem to fit my situation.

Any ideas anyone?

[animal dreams]

urls always help!

[mcp]

Sorry

http://www.test.modelmonsters.com/index.html

Thanks

[Chunkford]

It's because your style for the body tag is referring to the image (backgroundlogo4.jpg) in the acatalog folder, and on your home page it is not using the correct url.

I would guess changing the url for the image will break the image for the other pages tho.

Try adding the style you have added to the body of the html doc to the Actinic stylesheet instead

[skinnybloke]

Hi - I remember having problems with this on one of my sites whereby I had to specify "acatalog/" before the file name for it display for the homepage online. This was not needed in the preview mode - me thinks a bug in actinic.

The code I used was:

<div id="pagelayout"<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e">
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsPreviewMode%22%20%2f%3e" >
style="background:url('aw09-home-background.jpg') no-repeat top right #fff;"
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsNotPreviewMode%22%20%2f%3e" >
style="background:url(acatalog/aw09-home-background.jpg) no-repeat top right #fff;"
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
>

I first checked if it was the home page.
Then I checked if it was preview mode, if so display

style="background:url('aw09-home-background.jpg') no-repeat top right #fff;"

The I checked if was the page viewed online, if so display

style="background:url(acatalog/aw09-home-background.jpg) no-repeat top right #fff;"

[mcp]

Thank you for your reply. I have put the code in the body text of home page but it is not appearing. I would value your thoughts.

Cheers

[leehack]

I'd keep it much simpler, have your generic body tag declaration in the css as normal and then in the head area of the template have a blockif which checks whether it is the home page or not, if it is then override the body declaration with the new image. All pages will then use the generic body class apart from the home page because it will be overwritten it in the head area on that particular page.

There is no need to add acatalog into any css declaration if it's done properly IMO. The only thing some people suffer is the images needing to be copied into the preview folders, but again i've never needed to do that either.

[leehack]

I have put the code in the body text of home page but it is not appearing.

This is gibberish that makes no sense. What on earth is body text of home page? Body text of a home page at best would be within a fragment, if indeed that is what you mean. If it is, then you certainly don't do what you've said you've done in that place.

[mcp]

My apologies if I am not making sense I will try and make myself clearer.

I like the idea of simpler though I am not sure how to code a blockif to check if its the home page or not? Can you advise please.

Thank you

[leehack]

David's code has that condition ready built. Add that to your site and study it, it's just a basic condition that already exists in actinic.

[jont]

if its the home page or not? Can you advise please

Use IsBrochureHomePage == true as the condition

[mcp]

Ok, I feel like I have come a little further. I can now see the background image in actinic (as I can with the other pages) and I can see it in Preview mode. But still no joy on upload

Any ideas welcome.

Thanks

[mcp]

Not sure what it was that has made it work but horay horah - it is now working

Thanks to all those that posted a reply today. Your help s always appreciated.

Cheers