Legend,
seejee is very correct.
There are many resources on the web to learn how to style HTML (XHTML) with stylesheets (CSS). A good place to start is with w3c.The WordPress documentation is also a good place to start. There are many more searchable on the web. This is what you need to explore to better understand and implement the changes you want to make.
To leave you with an example, here’s what one would do to give some text in footer.php the color red:
In the stylesheet, style.css, find #footer. Under that add the class ‘.change’, where you want text in that class to be red, like so:
#footer .change {
color: red;
}
In footer.php, add the class to the text you want to change (in this expample a line of paragraph <p> text will be red):
<p class=”change”>Test of this change.</p>
or, for just one word inside the paragraph text, use a <span> to assign the class, like this:
<p>Test of this <span class=”change”>change</span>.</p>
The output displayed will show the selected text as red color, while all other text is the original color.
Again, this is just an example. I would definitely review the above resource suggestions first.
As you probably know, it’s very wise to save the .php file or .css file text somewhere before editing the file, in case what you did causes problems and you need to go back.
Good luck!
