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I have installed a complete blank theme with no CSS in my new wordpress blog. I have been trying to give it a background image but no success.

I am working on blog's content. Blog is very new. So, until content is ready, I want just a background image to appear on my blog and have some text in the middle of the page.

I removed content from footer.php, I removed default post which you see when Wordpress is first involved. I removed content in searchform. php too. I want it all blank for sometime. just want a BG image and some text that displays in the middle of my blog.

I added this line in blank theme's style.css..its not working. ALso where do I add text so it displays in the centre?

body { background: url('http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/myIMG.jpg')

Can some one please help me out here??

I do not know anything about PHP so I dont knwo where to add text. Please help me. Which php whould I add text to? and also this background image isnt still working. Ichanged it to background-image now

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You're missing a closing ';}' from that line – Vince Pettit Mar 22 '12 at 12:08

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Background image:

 body { background-image: url('http://mysite...'); }

Text:

 body { text-align: center; }

and in the html file for your main website:

 <html>
    <body>
      <p>MyText</p>
    </body>
 </html>

You could also use some <div> tags with the 'class' attribute combined with margin and padding attributes in CSS to get the text in a more precise area.

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