I see they've added some new themes to the choices. I'm using the GW Houzz colors one. With it you can change the size of the font, style of the font and the colors of the background and such. You will need to find a list of color codes but that is easy enough with doing a simple google search.

The daffodil is cute but I wouldn't want the flower behind the text, it does need a text box added...imho anyway.

I'm kind of enjoying the challenge, it's making me use my brain a bit...LOL!

OK so why isn't the CODE working for bold?

Never mind, I just noticed that it's now added to the edit choices!

very cool, i love that one with the daffodils =)
i tried that one out cause it was so bright and cheerful...but agree- it is a little harder to read. it's quite lovely thouh, love the colors.

now, i am done messing with the ones i made.

got all the little bugs out, that i could find, and changed them a little, just mellowed out some of the font sizes...cause i made them kinda huge....anywho maybe i will post up a new thread somewhere...to let people know they are out there and usable...

https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/gardenweb

i made a few that i was trying to create sort of a universal one...where all you have to do is change the picture, basically plug in your own image. those are the last ones i did called "backgrounds" and also another one with the morning glories.

it might be a bit intimidating, but if you install them, go to add ons (in your browser), click edit...it brings up the code. if you scroll down to where theres a web address, and erase that one then put your own pictures web address in, it will show that image in the background.

and with the text box defined with a different color, so its not just on top of the image. if you felt bold, you might even take that one (the daffodils) and then go look for where the text box color is, figure out the number of the color you want....and then change that number to whatever color you want.

you can also use them on top of each other.

the simple font and color changing one that molanic made will help a lot with the colors of links, size of fonts, and such. so you can start with which ever one you like best, then install the color changing one to add the text boxes, the font size...etc...and it will be both at once, and work together. yeah that would be the easier way to get the daffodil one to have more variation.

this is the one that changes colors and fonts:
https://userstyles.org/styles/110474/gardenweb-houzz-colors

oo and btw you dont have to look the codes up, the box pops up where you can move the cursor to show different colors and then automatically puts in the right number...

i just messed around with loadin them all on top of each other and switching between them, and it all worked great..... they all looked nice even with two or three of them installed.

with the daffodils one, i notice theres a backdrop on it now, so its not right on top of the image. when i have both the one i am using and the daffodils, i get the same colors i put on mine, but the daffodil picture. well just checking it out!

if you do alter one, it would be best to save it with a new name. i guess if some one changes it and saves it...it will change it for all of them....

LEILA - it was you? who made these backgrounds for us??? Well really... I cannot cannot thank you enough. That was the deal-breaker for me. I was outta here with that houzz takeover... but then jasmineroses4u supplied the link to morning glory... and suddenly I could stay at gardenweb (i can even - happily - still call it that with the morning glory background!) after all. Lurked here for nigh on 6 years... was gutted to have to leave, but for me the bother was mainly about being bombarded with Houzz pretension/rubbish. So your background solved my biggest drama about staying in one shot. Thanks so much hey? You're awesome!

i made a few of them, but Richard (chuggerguy) , who posted earlier on this thread got me going on it =)

i
installed the morning glory background (he made it originally), and
then i opened it up and altered it....kept working on it to change the
settings....but totally i agree, this helps a lot. molanic also made a
few, and made the nifty color changing simple one...he said he would work on a small one for tablets....

but then i got on a roll and made 5 more =)
well
it was easy, once i did one, cause for the most part they are the
same....with different pics...so anywho i made a bunch in a row, several
related "morning glory" ones...based on the same original.

i made this here: https://userstyles.org/styles/110782/gardenweb-backgrounds

here:

https://userstyles.org/styles/110783/gardenweb-backgrounds-2

here:

https://userstyles.org/styles/110762/gardenweb-morning-glory-with-purples

here:

https://userstyles.org/styles/110784/gardenweb-morning-glory-with-blues
and here:
https://userstyles.org/styles/110769/gardenweb-morning-glory-with-purples-3

this last one is the one i am usin...

yeah i like the daffodil (that richard made for chemocurls request)

one a lot, now that the text stands out better. when i was playing with having two applied at once...i took this screenshot:

I'm loving the daffodils, and yes, like them best without the daffs behind the print.

it might be a bit intimidating, but if you install them, go to add ons
(in your browser), click edit...it brings up the code. if you scroll
down to where theres a web address, and erase that one then put your own
pictures web address in, it will show that image in the background.

I might try playing with them later. Thanks to all who have worked on making these wonderful themes/skins (?)...whatever.

Sue

yeah you should try it! it is really much easier than it could seem.

in the last ones i did, i was thinking i could make one so that all you do is change the web address, and it would show whatever background you choose...the earlier ones, like the "morning glory" original one, theres two web address inside the code, one with the morning glory, one with the back drop. if you open up the code and search those out and change them, it would be a whole new theme =)

o one other thing to mention is that .png image format is best for this purpose....so you might have to create a .png file by opening it and then saving it as .png

.jpg isnt as good at resizing easily...it can be done but you have to create the right size

i put some instructions, and made a thread on the main seed exchange page,
here:
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/2867554/have-different-backgrounds-and-improved