Creating a background for the homepage

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    princesssmichelle · Member ·

    How do I put a background on the homepage?

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    timethief · Member ·

    One of the most common questions that volunteers on the wordpress.com support forum answer everyday is: “How do I edit the wordpress.com template?”
    The answer is: I’m sorry but you cannot edit your template and you cannot use javascript. It’s important to tell you that although some themes at wordpress.org and wordpress.com may appear to be the same they are not; the software is different.

    At wordpress.com we are on a shared multiuser blogging platform and we are not allowed to alter our templates for security reasons. For the same reason we cannot use javascript, iframes, forms, flash, some media embeds and styles, etc. This explains is greater detail why javascript is stripped.

    If you do not wish to use one of the themes made available at wordpress.com through your admin section -> Dashboard -> Presentation -> Themes then you have two options. The choice you make may depend on the differences between css customizing a wordpress.com theme or moving to self hosting or a web host and altering a free wordpress.org template.

    (1) The “please read me first before posting” pink sticky at the head of the forum outlines the differences between wordpress.com blogs and wordpress.org blogs which are on different code bases.

    (2) The 15$ you pay to upgrade enables you to to alter the appearance of your theme and but not the underlying php code. Purchasing the upgrade entitles you to customize a cascading style sheet on one blog for one year.

    You can use CSS to improve on any existing theme; you can define your own classes for use in posts; you can select the Sandbox theme and build on one of the Minimalist layouts or opt for no stylesheet and do it all yourself.

    Although there is a forum and other bloggers may volunteer to help you if needs be, there is no staff support for css customization. If you feel you have the required skills to customize a theme and you choose to purchase an upgrade and undertake css customization then these two threads
    will be helpful. There is also another one here http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/12/29/css-improvements/

    And as you are new to wordpress.com this thread will be useful to you because it contains links to the basic resources we use here. Happy Blogging!

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    drmike · Member ·

    Just for reference, the CSS upgrade is on discount right now for $10 until the end of today.

    I did it on my webcomic. I just did it with the CSS upgrade and declaired a new background for the body.

    Hope this helps,
    -drmike

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