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Category style #127379 09/23/2001 9:10 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 FiveFlat Junior Member FiveFlat Junior Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 I'm noticing on most peoples ubb that their category has a kinda faded, 3-d look to it. I don't think that its an image overlay. Does anyone know how that look is acheived?

Re: Category style #127380 09/23/2001 10:29 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Lord Dexter Member Lord Dexter Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia I think this is what they do: They use Photoshop or a Imaging program to do the 3-d category affect and then use it as a background.

Re: Category style #127381 09/24/2001 10:53 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 FiveFlat Junior Member FiveFlat Junior Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 Where would you put that in to make it use that as a background? not the cp would ya?

Re: Category style #127382 09/24/2001 7:53 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Lord Dexter Member Lord Dexter Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Yeah, in your Style settings in your CP. You need to have the background made first though.

Re: Category style #127383 09/24/2001 8:53 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 FiveFlat Junior Member FiveFlat Junior Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 I've made the background, so I can just type the code into the box where it asks for a category strip color?

Re: Category style #127384 09/24/2001 9:02 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 FiveFlat Junior Member FiveFlat Junior Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 Nope, can't do that..

Re: Category style #127385 09/24/2001 9:31 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Lord Dexter Member Lord Dexter Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Upload the image to your NONCGI directory, then go into your Style settings and put the name of the file in the Background image box.

Re: Category style #127386 09/24/2001 9:46 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 FiveFlat Junior Member FiveFlat Junior Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 that'll make the whole page have that background. I want just the category strip to have that background.

Re: Category style #127387 09/24/2001 10:04 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Lord Dexter Member Lord Dexter Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia You have to do the whole background on Photoshop or PSP or whatever you used to make the category strip background colour.

Re: Category style #127388 09/25/2001 3:16 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 54 cyberspring Member cyberspring Member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 54 LoL @ the Lord...maybe he's asking for this? Code code: or maybe not

Re: Category style #127389 09/25/2001 3:21 AM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Lord Dexter Member Lord Dexter Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,708 Melbourne, Australia Well thats another way of doing it...The forum I asked on said they did it on background. Oh well try that. *shrugs*

Re: Category style #127390 09/26/2001 12:34 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 FiveFlat Junior Member FiveFlat Junior Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6 I found the hack finally. THanks guys. Now I am trying to find a user defineable custom title hack. All the hacks I find have to be input by the adminstrator in the control panel.