Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-4829508-20131115055913/@comment-4189499-20131117014017

Pinky1 wrote: I would like to create my own background as well, but I was reading the instructions and I feel like I bought an Ikea couch and got instructions in GERMAN. PLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSEEEEEEEEE.... I NEED step by step PEOPLE SPEAK. I don't know if a kilobyte  is LESS OR MORE than a Mega byte. And what is a PNG? I'm sorry to be a pest, but you guys have to post a Glossary of Terms for people who do NOT speak TECHNESE. Don't worry Pinky1. We were all in that situation once! A quick run down: A kilobyte is smaller than a mega byte. It goes: byte; 1000 x byte = kilobyte ; 1000 x kilobyte = megabyte ; 1000 x megabyte = gigabyte ; 1000 x gigabyte = terabyte. Also, a .png is a kind of image file. They're usually very high quality, but also are very big (their size is often given in megabytes). A .jpg is another kind of image file which is slightly lower in quality, but is also smaller in file size (size can be measured in kilobytes), which generally makes it better for backgrounds as it loads faster.

Now, if you want to make a background, you will need to make an image or get one online and play with it so it works properly. You will probably have to edit it in some kind of editing program, unless you somehow manage to stumble on image perfection. If you are going to edit your image yourself, I would recommend you use an image editing program which lets you edit images in layers that can be made transparent so you can get the sizing and positioning right by editing it over a screenshot of your wiki taken when the page was at 100% zoom. However, if you're not comfortable with doing that yourself, tell me what you want and give me the base image and I'll try to edit it for you.

I hope this helps! Just remember, the more you work at this sort of thing, the more you'll learn. We were all newbies once!