Some themes have the option to change your background already installed. To change it you can go to customize > appearance > upload background image. I have several background images you can use here.

Some themes you just can’t change the background! This is because the background is part of the theme graphics.

To change a background using html…

In your code you’ll be able to find your body code that will look a little like below.

body{

font-family:tahoma;

color:#000;

font-size:12px;

background-color:XXXXXX;

background-image:url(IMAGEURL)

background-repeat:repeat;

background-attachment:absolute;

}

Okay so what does everything mean?

background-color:XXXXXX;

to change the COLOR of your background you need to change where I have XXXXXX to a color code. You can find many color codes on google & it must start with #. If you only want a color as your background and no image, you can delete background-image:url(IMAGEURL);

background-image:url(IMAGEURL);

this is where you can change/add an image as your background. to do this replace IMAGEURL with the url of your chosen background image.

background-repeat:repeat;

this part depends on your chosen background… if it’s a small background designed to be repeat you need to have repeat between : and ; IF you don’t want your background to repeat itself (as maybe you’ve used a graphics software to create your theme) you need to replace :repeat; with :no-repeat;

background-attachment:absolute;

this part of the code depends on your chosen background again. do you want your background to move when you scroll (like my tutorial blog)? or stay in the same place (like my main blog)?

If you want it to move, the attachment is absolute

If you want it to stay in the same place, the attachment is fixed

xo