The header picture or image is the one that goes up the top, just like the one on this blog, which is a picture of the sea that I took from a headland some time ago.

Okay, here goes. Put your mouse cursor on the picture and right click (Sorry Mac people, I only have a PC). Choose and left click "View Background Image". Look up the top of the page (I use the Firefox browser), write down the name of the image and the file ending. It will be something like "top.png" or "header.jpg". Note the size it will be something like 190x760pixels. Can't see it? Look right up the top, above where it says "File".

Now, go to Irfanview and download the viewer if you don't already have it and install it. Once installed, open up your image in  Irfanview and then select the  picture by  left click, hold and drag. As you do, watch the size change. Keep doing it until it is exactly the same size as the header pic (e.g. 190x760pixels). Immediately take your fingers off so it stays that size then  click on "cut" then open a "new, empty image" and paste the image into it. Save it as the name and file ending style of the header pic (e.g. header.jpg). FTP the image to the place where the original header pic is and replace it with the one you just made. Since it is exactly the same size and is called the same name, the Worpress software will show it in the header space. Well done. You now have your own picture there. Easy, huh? This is the way I did it for both this blog and for Josh's Bistro blog.

Like many others, I was sickened that anyone could treat another human being this way. At the same time, I realized that some day Megan will have recovered from this crime against her, and would be going forward with her life. In this forever changed world that includes the internet, I knew that someday she would be sitting at a computer and would google her own name, just as many of us have and do from time to time, always wanting to see what curious little bit might be out there about us.

I realized that Megan would be constantly reminded of her ordeal, each time she tries to do that very normal action, and I wanted to do something about it.

I asked readers to leave positive comments that would be turned into an image that would be available, so that Megan would also find that people cared about her even though we didn't personally know her.

For this first image (and there will be more) I asked a friend to create it. A very talented and beautiful soul, she has offered this image as her gift towards this effort. Despite my insistance that we should know the image was her creation, she preferred to remain nameless, not wanting the credit for it. Some of you may recognize the style and know it was from her. If you do, please say a prayer for her, and send her good thoughts. I appreciate her gift more than she knows. Click it to open up the full image.

As these images become available, please do use them as screensavers or desktop wallpaper. Please too, if you blog, mention where you got it with a link to this blog so that others too, may come to leave a comment for Megan.

And perhaps this way, when Megan searches her name someday, she will not only have to find old news stories to remind her of unhappy days in her life, but she will find countless wishes from strangers... to let her know that when we place the people of the world on a scale, the kind outweigh the horrid.

Thank you.

Wie es jetzt ist:

#element {
  background-image: url(images/background.jpg);
} 

Wie es sein soll:

body {
  image-path: images/;
}
#element {
  background-image: url(background.jpg);
} 

Das sieht zwar in der jetztigen Version nach etwas mehr Code aus, bei langen Pfadangaben und häufiger Verwendung wird das allerdings weniger Code. Die Seiten laden schneller, Traffic wird gespart, und dem Designer Zeit und Nerven (falls er sich mal wieder vertippt hat.)

Wer jetzt die Bilder doch in mehreren Ordnern hat, aber diese Funktion gerne für einen teil benutzen möchte, der kann das ganze mit Kindklassen und meiner vorgeschlagenen reset funktion einstellen.

using this snazzy calendar/wallpaper builder that again comes from that nifty site, BigHugeLabs - i made a personalized and functional background.

here's this months calendar i made. free.