Yes, you can change the color and background using CSS — using a tool like Firebug is the best way to identify which CSS to change. This is a good CSS resource: http://www.w3schools.com/css/ If you need further help, posting a link to your site will be helpful.
See this on the static page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Thanks. I haven’t made any changes to the original theme yet, which is why I didn’t bother posting the site. Thank you for the links. I created my own glittery color in gimp though, so that’s what I wanted to put as a background,–like an image, not just change the color. Any idea what the code is for this? (I need it for both the background where it’s grey and for the top header that’s blue). Thanks.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp
body {background-image:url('example.gif');}
Where to put that code in your style.css file depends on the theme — even if you have no content, posting a link will help someone tell you more specifically. (I don’t have that theme easily available installed to look at it.)
But before changing anything, you should create a child theme — otherwise all your changes to the theme will be overwritten when you update the theme. Or consider using a Custom CSS plug-in.
Hello. Thank you so much for your help, especially with the advice of the custom css plugin. That’s handy. I ended up switching themes because pujugama was kind of difficult. I’m using Bouquet now and it’s doing what I need, but I still need to know if there is a way to have a static home page without showing the sidebar, then a blog page with sidebar. I have already followed the instructions on that link. It doesn’t allow me to set up a sidebar for another page.
My site’s kind of a mess so I don’t want to post the link, but I can send it to you directly with an address.
Thank you so much for the help.
I should also note that I have more than just two pages, but only want the blog page to have the sidebar. Thanks.
