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I'm sorry, but I can't find where to get this setting right. Furthermore, fiddling around with Lib/CSS/style-common.css I now have that solid color ALSO on the Mac!
Thinking that this file covered all pages (there is the word "common" in the name) I saw:

/* Typography
======================================== */

/* Normalize font-size for device-pixel-ratio */
html {
    background-color: #E2D7B5;
 
    font-size: 14px;
    min-height: 100%;
    }

  " background-color: #E2D7B5 " witch is exactly that solid color. I removed that color code and...low and behold, I saw the solid color appear under that moose name-plate and the background (under that ripped paper image) became...white. So, I learned something: the background is under everything.
So, I put that color code back. The background, the lowest level's color was restored. Great. But now, I have that solid color under the moose name-plate!
I am at a loss here.

I got the thumbnails to (at least) get to a 5:3 ratio by placing the sliders to 500/300. I also tried all kinds of other combinations but these are the smallest thumbnail albums I could produce. Any way to control the size/ratio better? Why can't I get more manageable sizes? These are frankly still too large.
I guess if I create a "custom" thumbnail, I would not get these random ones., but where do I place them?

See it all here : http://lucnadeau.ca

Rather drastic, don't you think?

Should I trash it all? I mean there are 29 folders in there...plus all my templates and web engines.

Looking into the "the Auto Index" section, I fail to see where it is that would set album and thumbnail sizes. In "The grid setup for the Auto Index" there are controls for padding, margin and border sizes along with the mantle and the core widths.
Then, there is the "Albums setup for the Auto Index". This is where is set the Auto Index type to Iconic. But, the are no album/thumbnails sizes to set. Instead there are "aspect ratio" slisers, "Album Columns", "Album Info Height" and "Album Spacing" settings.
I've made a screen capture of "the Auto Index" pane here :
Can you see size settings somewhere?

Got the background to work. Thank you.
I placed the background instructions into the Custom CSS file in the "portal" page because the effect should be site-wide.
I then placed the image positioning instructions within the "Fr/plugins/custom css" folder because the effect should affect only the info page.
I also tried placing all instructions in either of the CSS folders : Only the background functions when in the "portal" css folder.

Must be a typo or syntax error again...

I must be doing something wrong :

-I copied the code suggested in the Custom.Css file to no avail. Since the image is part of the block, does this hinder the process?

- same for those few lines at the top of the CSS file. Supposed to display a background image throughout the site. No such luck.
  I already used this effect, no problem, on another site. Looking for the mistake.

Thanks for the help with this. I should be able to find my mistake, hopefully.

I've already started re-building the site in CE4.
For the record : I had started and was well advanced when, getting to the contact page, I had this troublem with aligning the reply boxes relative to an image I wanted to put on the page. Having problems getting it as I wanted, I had this crazy idea to build another contact page in a different CE4 Pages template, sample that part of the code that concerned the contact page from the lrtemplate file and paste it onto the contact page I was having problems with. I guess you can't do that. At least the way I tried it because from then on, Lightroom did not recognize the amended lrtemplate file.
So, I'm re-building the site.

Well, I resolved to start over...but, when I finally get this template right. I'm worried that doing the copy/paste routine might end up with the same mistake! I've been at this rebuild all day and will still be at it tomorrow.
Plus, I still have those formatting problems for the Contact page that where at the origin of all this mess.

The "target" template is here: http://pideja.ca/CE4Pages-Fr.lrtemplate
The "source template is here: http://pideja.ca/SOURCE_CE4Pages-fr.lrtemplate

So I do have all the settings in a "template" file, but it's not recognized by Lightroom.

By the way, the "new" template IS in the web templates folder. But Lightroom does not recognize it. I can't even use the "import" button to load it: I get the error message ...

Thank you Rod and Daniel.

Will look into this, sure will help.