Changing background in blog posts

  • Resolved bsavi

    (@bsavi)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    I am in the edit themes menu.

    I am in the styles.css section and I would like to change the background of the blog to transparent so you can see the real color of the site. If that is not possible I would like to change it to black and change the lettering to a deep red for each individual heading.

    Our site is here https://www.modern-muscle.com/gallery/9-second-camaro

    and our boddy is this
    body {
    /*background: #666666;*/
    background: #000000 url(images/bg.gif) top center repeat-x fixed;
    width: 980px;
    color: #222222;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
    margin: 0px auto 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    }

    What do I need to adjust and is this the correct area to adjust?

    Thanks,
    Savi

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  • You need to change the BACKGROUND code, you can pick your colour from somewhere like Quark express or Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver has them too. Get the code for the colour you want and replace the #666666 with the new code. Always save your settings before making changes in case of errors. I changed mine to pink by changing this piece of code.

    Thread Starter bsavi

    (@bsavi)

    I have already tried that and have been unsuccessful!

    Remember to press CTRL and F5 simultaneously when viewing an updated page/site. Or try emptying your browser cache. This should ensure that your web browser fetches a fresh copy of the page rather than serving up an out-dated copy from your own cache.

    Thread Starter bsavi

    (@bsavi)

    It now sits like this

    body {
    /*background: #000000;*/
    background: #000000 url(images/bg.gif) top center repeat-x fixed;
    width: 980px;
    color: #222222;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
    margin: 0px auto 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    }

    I have cleared my cache and am still not seeing black. Is anyone else seeing black?

    https://www.modern-muscle.com/gallery/trans-am

    Which part of the page background are you trying to change?

    Thread Starter bsavi

    (@bsavi)

    In fact when changing the color on anything, it will not actually change on the website. I thought I was doing something wrong but now it does not seem so.

    Thread Starter bsavi

    (@bsavi)

    you can see the text is black on a background that is white. I would like the white background that the words are on to be black and to change the words colors.

    Edit style.css and change:

    #contentleft {
background:#FFFFFF;
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:20px;
width:640px;
}

    to:

    #contentleft {
color:#FFFFFF;
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:20px;
width:640px;
}
    Thread Starter bsavi

    (@bsavi)

    That worked amazingly! Thank you!

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