Stylesheet background messed up

Actually the theme author submitted his own theme. See – https://www.frederikm.de/

As I see it the blue stripes appear at the header and the end of the footer only. There is a plain background image that repeats all over the body of the page but it’s also the same with the theme author’s. If it’s not the stripes image or plain background image, what other background image are you referring to?

If you compare mine to his you’ll see that he has the stripes, and they gradient down to black and it’s black until the stripes at the bottom of the page.

In mine, it goes from stripes to black, then a light blue to black, and light blue to black, repeat, repeat, etc., etc. until the bottom stripes. It’s messed up.

Ok,got it. You had changed something in your theme’s style.css where you deleted the background-repeat: repeat-x. To correct it, open your style.css:
Change this

body {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	background-image: url(images/bg.jpg);
	color:#ccc;
	line-height: 1.4em;
	font-style:normal;
	font-variant:normal;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-size:10pt;
	font-family:Arial, Sans-Serif;
	background-color: #0D1216;
	position: relative;
}

to this:

body {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	color:#ccc;
	line-height: 1.4em;
	font-style:normal;
	font-variant:normal;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-size:10pt;
	font-family:Arial, Sans-Serif;
	background-color: #0D1216;
	background-image: url(images/bg_grad.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

Well, close…but not really. If you look at it now it doesn’t really gradient down to the black like the original.

Ok, I see you added background color in .background div
Open your style.css

.background {
// delete this line ----> background-color: #0D1216;
// or replace with ----> background-color: none;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center top;
background-image: url(images/background.jpg);
}

delete the background-color you added in the stylesheet since it covers the gradient background in body tag,

Thanks, but that didn’t do it either. That just made everything white except for the top and bottom stripes. I don’t believe I changed anything in the body portion. I think I have the default settings that came with the theme.

“I must have messed something up in the stylesheet.”

I suggest reuploading the original style.css that came with the theme. This will restore the original layout as designed by theme author.