In Need Of Help

[kdm]

I want to use the templates offered by Bluehost but apparently there's no way to use the template without the background images (people, computers,buildings etc...) I'm creating a multimedia music website for independent musicians and I'm hoping that Bluehost have all the capabilities to help. Is there a way to use these templates or am I going to have start from scratch?

[grant]

The templates that Bluehost offer are just examples. It's kind of up to you to decide what to replace certain items with, and how to retool them to your needs. Trust me, it can be done. Bluehost does offer a website builder called Page Wizard, it's in the Cpanel. I'm not too familiar with how well it works though. There are also tons of third party web site builders to choose from. Just use google and you'll find loads of stuff out there.

If you are unfamiliar with web design, html, php, etc... You can go to w3 schools (http://www.w3schools.com/) and you'll find loads of free online tutorials for most web languages.

I hope that helps.

[KenJackson]

You can edit the template files with a text editor to do anything you want. I experimented with them briefly (didn't like them), and I see they created a file named custom.css, which starts like this:
body {
background-image: url("imags/background.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: center;
background-color: #586F84;
...
Try deleting those first three background lines in the "body" section and the equivalent lines in the ".headerpic" and "#menubox" sections.

If you don't have SSH access, you'll have to copy them from the server to your PC, edit them and copy them back using the control panel.