some problems adding favicon mod and csszzen menu bar buttons <solved>

It looks like those boxes are defined in the CSS. I think that makes sense, since CSSZen was designed for people to be able to just change up the CSS a bit to make their own pretty skin. For example, here.

#menu A, #footermenu A { 
color: #FFFFFF; 
text-decoration: none; 
font-weight: bold;
width:100px; 
height:20px; 
position: relative;
border: 1px solid #000;
background: #800000;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}

Width of 100px, height 20px, red background; that sounds like your box to me. There's about six sections there related to the menu, so playing with those should give you what you want.

ok thank you. I didnt know if I could add images to css. I thought that had to be done in the html somewhere.  I wanted to upload a bullet image

You can put those into CSS using img(). Or in the HTML. Your choice. Most people do CSS.

cool. I will play around.  : )  Sounds a lot less complicated now, I hope. 

Any idea why my favicon did not want to work?  and, am I right about the challenges not being able to be listed on the index in a block?  I thought I read that...but I am not sure if I read it right.

I haven't seen a challenges block, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I never use challenges.

I don't know why the favicon isn't working. What browser are you using? I know IE's more particular than others.

I tried it in both. I think I must have the code wrong somehow.  I dunno.  I'll keep playing.  😉

Can you tell me where I can find where the images are linked to the scripts?  For instance. I know {featuredstories} is blueribbon.gif.  I would like to try changing this to a different graphic. I also wanted to upload a graphic for the {new}.  I checked variables.php in the default, but I did not see, nor did i see it in the variables.php for the skin itself.  I'm stumped.  😕
Thanks!

Hmm, I don't know much about this. I think to change them you would do so in the skin's variables.php. This wiki article talks about it a little: https://efiction.org/wiki/index.php5?title=Images_in_Skins

For any of the variables for skins, like {featuredstory} or what have you, those variables are typically created somewhere in one of the PHP files using "tpl assign->". I have no idea where that is, though.

Thanks : )

I did read over that last night, but I didn't really understand it.  I tried putting my "new" graphic in the css instead of what is there now, but all it did was take away the formatting for the font, and did not show the graphic.

Just thought I would update what I tried next, in case anyone has a clue what I am doing wrong.  I tried this in the variables.php for my skin.  (again trying to change thew New! to a gif)

$new = <img src="'".$skindir."/images/new.gif"" alt='"new"'>;

Got this error:  
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NEW in /home/stockhe2/public_html/fanfiction/skins/MBTB/variables.php on line 50

Is your filename new.gif or star.gif? I suspect the first. You want more something like this:

$new = "<img src="'".$skindir."skins/MBTB/images/new.gif'" alt='"._NEW."'>";

$new = "<img src="'".$skindir."skins/MBTB/images/new.gif'" alt='"._NEW."'>";

That took the error away, but still did not bring up the graphic.  Just changed the word NEW to a white font

There's probably something wrong with the file path, then.  Oh yeah, checking I think I copied one of the bad examples to use. *headdesk* Both $skindir and skins in the path isn't going to work out.

Try this:

$new = "<img src="'".$skindir."/images/new.gif'" alt='"._NEW."'>";

Squee!  that worked!  😀 

And!  I got my favicon to work!  LOL

Ok, now I am going to try and do the thing you sent me.  I am going to dl IE 8 on my desktop and test it there after I get it installed.