changing the background color to black

  • Resolved rlogue

    (@rlogue)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I’m using the WordPress default (“based on Kubrick”) style. It’s nice. It’s simple. It allows me to change the colors of the banner. I like it.

    But I want to change the background color from that soft gray to black. How do I do this?

    I’m assuming it would be in the Theme Editor, Stylesheet (styles.css), but I don’t know HTML enough to know what to change. and I certainly don’t want to eff it all up.

    I want to change the background color from that soft gray to black. How do I do this?

    Thanks!

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  • Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    /* Begin Typography & Colors */
body {
font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background: #d5d6d7 url('images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg');
color: #333;
text-align: center;
}

    Change #d5d6d7 to #000 (and or re-color or remove kubrickbgcolor.jpg ?)

    You may have some image borders to deal with as well.

    Thread Starter rlogue

    (@rlogue)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Yeah, changing it to 000000 and removing the bit about the kubrickbgcolor.jpg changed it to black, but you’re right about there being a border around the text box.

    It’s a start, and I appreciate your help.

    Now, how can we change that border? Where is the image for that? I can probably alter it with Photoshop.

    Thread Starter rlogue

    (@rlogue)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I found the images I needed and successfully changed them.

    Thanks for the help, Clayton!

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    The images are in the default theme folder located in a subfolder named (oddly enough), “images”. You will have to open the images in Photo-Chop, Gimp, or whatever editor you like, and re-color accordingly. Good luck maintaining the shadow effect with a re-color. (That’s just sour grapes from me ’cause I really suck at graphics manipulation!) Your mileage may vary. Good luck!

    🙂

    [Edit] you beat me..

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Your welcome!

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