Question around top menu in Sparky on Joomla 3

Hello,

I am trying out the Sparky Theme on Joomla 3 and although i have a Top menu in User3 location with Drop Down setup. I am trying to customise the nav menu.. either by making the button colours transparent or putting a banner effect behind the buttons as you have done in this demo site demo.hotjoomlatemplates.com/index.php?template=sailing

Inside the layout designer i cannot see an area where you can add specific images to lay "behind" the button nav? I am also trying to soften the drop menu by adding rounded edges on the end of the menu but there are no options to do this?

Can anyone please advise how i go about this please?

Thanks very much

Eno.

Inside the layout designer i cannot see an area where you can add specific images to lay "behind" the button nav

this is not the way.

Layout designer purpose is to place module positions on page.
In menu settings tab you chose type of menu and thre you have menu options to define like font, size, padding ...etc
Am not sure where you want that images:

Menu item icons you can add in menu items settings
Background image for menu module position you can add by adding style like this at bottom of template_css.css:

.mp_<postion name>{
background-image:....
}

so for topmenu position it's:

.mp_topmenu{
....

Thanks Ivan,

That helped me sort out the menu. Just 1 question if i can, the topmenu (uses drop down) has a single contact link to one of the users on the site. when its clicked the sub menus of ALL of the top menu come down and over lap the content area? it seems to only be when i click on the contact us menu item. I have checked to make sure that the menu item is included in the sparky template manager menu assignments. I have attached 2 images .. the contact us gif is of the page as is shows when clicking on the contact us link off the top menu, the menu assignments are of the template manager in the back end.

Thanks

Eno.

Can you send link

Just sent you logon details via report moderator

Thanks Ivan.

Eno.

Remove this jquery reference:

if you don't know from what component it comes or how to disable it form some settings form you can just empty it and save