marilenis

thanks @batharoy

Well, I just installed My Custom CSS and added the simple lines

#header-container, .footer-widget-container {
background: #E01B6A;
}

and it worked! the color of the header is now a bright pink as intended. Thanks so much for the tip, although I am still curious about the style.css in the child theme folder.. oh well, we’ll use this for now..

Thanks so much for the help ??

@alchymyth, to answer your question about what formatting I’m trying to change and what is the result, these lines on the css
#header-container, .footer-widget-container {
background: #E01B6A;
}

should change the header and footer background. I copied these lines from the tutorial I’m following
https://www.presscoders.com/wordpress-theme-customization-guide/#chapterseven
I didn’t come up with them on my own..

I find it interesting that the styles I am trying to modify get formatted (like you said above) in https://holamultimedia.net/wp/wp-content/themes/designfolio/includes/css/color_schemes/default.css?ver=3.6 which gets loaded after style.css of your child theme.

So, what do you think is the right place to customize the stylesheet of a child theme? Wherever I look they say I need to create a subfolder and make the changes on the style.css there… This is confusing, I wonder if godaddy is my problem..

thanks kcrusher and alchymyth, I’ll try your suggestions and report back..