I've notice while looking through other members' profile pages that several of them have backgrounds and different colors/pictures in the header bars. I never really knew we could do this and now I want to. How would I go about doing that, if it differs from simply adding coding to my profile?

You have to make sure you don't have any line breaks in your CSS, otherwise the profile editor will transform it to a line break in the code and it will mess up your CSS.

So, for example, it would have to look like this:
body{background-image: ur(URL);} a:link {color: black;} a:hover {color: blue;}

As opposed to this:
body{background-image: ur(URL);}
a:link {color: black;}
a:hover {color: blue;}

Easiest way to explain: In your browser window go to View > Page Source and there you have it

Or you can just hire someone to teach you or do it for you.

So it involves CSS, which I know little to nothing about?

Just tried copying the code Annette posted with my own image URL. Didn't work.

I think you need to have the right CSS tags before and after it too... Or something. I don't really remember CSS from school, I copied and pasted all the CSS I did in grade 9 into my grade 10 and 11 websites, LOL

It needs to have style tags around it for it to display properly. If you don't even know the basics I can't really delve in too much, sorry, don't have the time or energy to explain a coding language... You'll have to look up guides for it.

Also, you need to replace URL with the link to an image of some sort, otherwise the background will just be default or blank.

Cyro Xero :

There's two ways that I know of to do this.

1. Learn CSS. I don't know any CSS nor do I know how to get HTML to do multiple background images, so you can't ask me.

2. Cheat and put all of your images into one and reupload it as a single background. My layout has very little code to it. I used div tags to use style for the background image and background color and table tags for the text. Everything else (including the translucent box) are part of the one background picture.

I like Method 2 a lot better . After I finish a picture it only takes around 15-20 minutes to code. The only reason it takes so long is because I have to get the position of the text just right so it doesn't look ugly. I haven't tried putting in various links, but you could probably float them as images and use br to move it down.

My coding is all very basic, but still effective. I'm the top seller right now. Take that CSS coders .

Annette : How about this: any chance you can copy the coding you did and somehow give it to me? I can look at it, figure out how everything works and then come up with my own thing. I'd take the "page source", but that has HTML and PHP mixed together. And I don't know the different between CSS and PHP.