How can I add graphics to the margins of my blog?

I have no idea how wordpress works, because I have never used it. However, I have made a lot of websites from scratch.

The way this is normally done is by adding a background image. Either as a large image or a tile that repeats it’s self. To do this you need to know a little bit about CSS.

The CSS to add a background image to a site is the following:

body {

background-image: url(file location + file name);
}

Here is a link to some information on CSS and backgrounds.

you need to somehow add some CSS styling. For example….

body {
background: url(‘location/of/image.png’) repeat 0 0
}

You need to know location of the image and make sure that its a tileable image. Meaning its seamless and can be tiled horizontally and vertically.

Thank you both! That was actually very helpful. When I log in there is a link that says Edit CSS. @poisonedantidote thanks for the link!

@notabridesmaid Be careful what CSS you edit. I imagine there are a few CSS files, all controling different things. You are probably looking for something like “master.css” or “main_style.css”. Something “main/primary” sounding.

Let me know if you get stuck