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Are you hosting your own copy of emoncms or using emoncms.org?

If you are using emoncms.org, it isn't something you can currently do.

hello,

yes I am hosting a copy of emoncms. I am don't using emoncms.org.

I've not done this, and you might well find it affects other parts of emoncms.

but if you use the developer tools in your browser when displaying the dashboard, you could find the CSS tag that defines the entire dashboard.

then search for the .CSS file that contains that tag and modify the properties to include a background image.

Simply paste HTML into a text box.

have you an example for CSS and HTML?

If you want to try the CSS route try googling "CSS background image" you'll find lots of examples

You can add an image to the dashboard using the paragraph widget, click configure and then enter:

<img src="http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/sites/default/files/Open-Hardware.png" >

This will draw the open hardware logo from the OpenEnergyMonitor home page

Ah yes and to change the background color try:

<style>
body { background-color:#222; }
</style>

or

<style>

body
{
background-image:url('http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Ubuntu-13-04-Default-Wallpaper-Was-Revealed-Download-It-Now-2.jpg');
background-color:#cccccc;
}
</style>

using that ubuntu gradient background looks quite nice!

thanks,

where I must put it in?

in this File:  "dashboard_edit_view.php"

Max,  Look at the post Submitted by TrystanLea on Sun, 23/03/2014 - 10:49.

Rather than modifying the css code, Trystan suggests just drawing a box as an object on the dashboard.

thanks, it works!