Some of you guys have some really really cool graphics on your league pages. Is there an easy way to import an image to be used as a league header/banner? We are currently using one of the MFL skins, so does this preculde us from making any custom changes to the appearance?
And please note: I know NOTHING about "coding", "scripting", and have no idea what CSS even is, etc... So basically I'm asking if there is a way someone who knows nothing about the programming language alot of you guys are always talking about can easily import an image into a site using an MFL skin. I'd love to be able to have a customized league "header/banner" and possibly some type of images to use for column headers for our divisions on the standings area of the page....
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer...

Get a free account over at photobucket.com. You can upload an image there, and then use the direct link URL from that image into the Commissioner Setup --> Images & Other URLs ---> League Logo URL. You can use Photobucket.com to hold your images and then link them to your site.

Don't worry about not knowing anything about scripting and coding, I did not know anything either, I'm not a programmer, and I've been just using the message boards to learn everything. Get yourself photoshop or GIMP (Free) to help out. Tutorials can be found on Youtube. What is your league link and maybe I can give you some help on a few things to get you going. Check out my site and see if you like anything.

Thunder56

yeah, see, what you've got is really cool, I'd love ot be able to add something like that for our league. Looking at your league, is that all "on top of" an MFL skin? I actually am somewhat proficient in photoshop, so creating an image isn't the problem, I'm just not sure how to embed it into the skin we are currently using. What I'd really like is something for a league home page banner, and then something to use atop each conference heading in the standings.
It looks as though if I can come up with an image, it's just a matter of making sure it's the right width to fit for the page heading and I can insert it following your instructions above. OK that makes sense.. Now what about inserting something for conference headers in the standings?
Thanks for your assistance

It started out being on the top of an MFL skin and then removing the top part of the skin using CSS code so only my banner showed up. Then I started working on my own format and then I went off the skin. I was using Back in Black skin to start. There is CSS Code you can use to change the colors of text and boarders, etc on the skin if you don't like the basic skin.

I don't have conferences, so I'm not sure if it shows up in the options after you select it. If there is not an option for conference header logo in MFL - Commissioners | Setup | Division and Conference Setup, then I would do a search on the forum, or post because I have seen questions and answers for it out there.

thunder, love the site. im jealous of the mouseover helmets. any chance you'd be willing to share the code?

OK, I've been playing just to see what we can do. I've created an image in photoshop and added it to the league header. Seems like MFL wants the image to be under 100k; it appears that it degraded the image quality when I did this? Also, what are the dimensions I need to make this image so that it fills the entire screen left-to-right? And lastly, how now do I get rid of the MFL standard heading that now appears above my image as part of the skin (or can I without messing with css or whatever)? Also please note I've added the link to our league site on the info to the right...
Thanks guys for any assistance...

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You can go around the 100k limitation by signing up for a free account on Photobucket.com. Then use the URL link from that photo into the Images & Other URLs in the Commissioners Settings. I’m not sure about the size needed. For me it depends on the size of the screen I’m using.

You can get rid of the page title by putting this into your CSS file and uploading it back into Images & Other URLs in the Commissioners Settings.



Other simple CSS Tweaks can be found at Habman's CSS Assistant

Good Luck!

You can get rid of the page title by putting this into your CSS file and uploading it back into Images & Other URLs in the Commissioners Settings.

Thanks for the reply, but that last part is all Greek to me. I don't know what my CSS file is. Is this something I can easily access and put the coding you mentioned in? If so, how (specifically) do I do this? Sorry, but I know nothing about programming html, css, or the like...

Its really not that hard, pretty simple with notepad. You can start with the pinned topics (top part) of the Coding and Scripting Forum. That is where I started to learn. You can start with this topic:

Basic Instructions for uploading custom CSS

If you use Firefox, you can get the Web Developer Addon and that will get you started. I'm not sure what the one is for IE but there should be info on that in the Coding and Scripting forum.