Changing the site demensions and background color

[outsourcethis]

I've installed Oscommerce and have a very nice operating site.

 

There are two items I would like to do.

1) Stretch the main site width side to side, so it is wider.

2) How can I change the background to another color. My site is in the middle of the page/browser and on either side of the site is white space. I want to change this white space to another color or background.

 

 

Here is an example. This site is not mine but it has those side spaces colored grey. http://shops.oscommerce.com/directory/goto,27915

 

I'm not the best at website coding so I'm hoping this is straight forward and easy.

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

[germ]

The color is controlled by this in the stylesheet in the site you linked to:

 

BODY {  background: #C0C0C0;   color: #000000;  margin: 0px;}

The gray color is this in that code:

 

background: #C0C0C0;

[germ]

And I couldn't tell you how to make the site wider without knowing how it's "contained" presently...

:blush:

[outsourcethis]

And I couldn't tell you how to make the site wider without knowing how it's "contained" presently...

:blush:

 

Thanks for the good info. What does "contained" mean?

[outsourcethis]

The color is controlled by this in the stylesheet in the site you linked to:

 

BODY {  background: #C0C0C0;   color: #000000;  margin: 0px;}

The gray color is this in that code:

 

background: #C0C0C0;

 

 

Thanks for the edumacation....:)

 

If I can ask another wquestion: what if I didn't want to change the color but I wanted to add some premade background image? How would I go about dat?

 

Thanks for the help so far.

[germ]

That there are several ways to keep a site a certain width.

 

If yours doesn't go from one side to the other there must be something already limiting the width.

[germ]

Background image stylesheet code example:

 BODY {
 background-image: url('images/your_image_name_here.jpg');
 background-repeat: repeat;
 background-position: center;
}

The last two lines aren't mandatory - just depends on the effect you're trying to achieve.

[outsourcethis]

That there are several ways to keep a site a certain width.

 

If yours doesn't go from one side to the other there must be something already limiting the width.

 

 

Not sure if my site's width can be adjusted. I haven't been able to find enough info for me to figure out were to look in my code. Might be the template I purchased for the site, now that you mention the limiting width idea.

 

I might need to check that out, though I must confuss I'm not sure how to do that either.

 

I had someone build that site but now I'm finding I enjoy doing the work myself but there are lots of things to learn.