Chapter 5. Applying Images

There are many ways to make your theme more attractive and unique. It can be done through applying some simple techniques. Based on the modifications you made in the global.css file earlier, you may have already created a unique theme.

You can change the look of the themes further by adding or replacing the default images with new images you created or obtained from various web resources. This chapter elaborates on applying the images, particularly background images, to complete the look of the theme for your online store.

Firstly, we will learn how to change the background images by editing the CSS. We will also explore how to modify the correct lines in the appropriate section of the CSS file.

Then let's look at replacing a couple of the default background images and see what effect this has on the overall design. We will show how to view the image information and then figure out what to replace or change. For this exercise, we will insert images through the...