Okay, so I'm new to coding but trying to learn. I've worked my way through some offsite coding tutorials (htmldog and w3schools) plus the css guides written by some really fantastic people here. And I've managed to get my profile-to-be about halfway into place. But now I'm stumped.

Here is the profile as it exists now, still a work in progress as I add the bits of code. And here is what the profile should look like when it's finished.

As you can see, one thing I want to do a lot of is replacing various images with my own buttons (mail, friend, WL, cult, shops, pets). For the life of me though, I cannot figure out how to do this. Can anyone offer some advice? I feel like if I can get help on one or two of them, I might be able to work out the rest.

I also need to add the border circle around the HA. Originally I had this great idea that the circle would be on top, followed by the HA, and then the background image. And I have this inkling that by playing with z-index I can make that happen, but beyond that I don't know how to simply add it in.

I also want to add a nav link at the top of the page and some small text somewhere for graphics credits. Anyhow, the common theme here is that I get how to tweak existing elements via CSS, but no idea how to add additional elements or replace things.

Welcome to the wonderfuk world of coding heh. I'm on my phone browser and pet pages don't load right so I'll check it out later. But I can tell you that z index is how you'd put think on top of each other, the higher numbers are on top.

Also, to make a text area for credit and navigation you'd use div layers..

[Code]

And to style and position it you would add this between the style tags, changed as needed.

[Code] {postion:fixed; top: 0px; left: 100px; blah blah blah}[/code]

lol yea, I figured I should get my feet wet. And I finally wanted to make a prettier user profile for myself. Okay, well at least I'm on the right track. Tho I tried doing the div thing and styling it but the text never showed up on the page. Where in the order of things should I put it? before the style tags? And all that still gets entered into the profile widget?

the section does between your style tags, where as the div=id section goes outside of the style tags.

Huh, I'll hafta try that again then and see if it shows up this time.