Title: Background colors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Background colors

 *  [finktank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finktank/)
 * (@finktank)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colors/)
 * Hi guys,
    Pardon me for asking such a newbie question but the other threads I’ve
   looked through have not resolved my question. I have my wordpress site set up
   and would like to begin customizing it.
 * The first place is to change the colors of the background surrounding my site
   and the background of the content.
 * See my website here so I can explain better: [http://www.newyorkforgore.com](http://www.newyorkforgore.com)
 * The blog and sidebar are over a white background and then there’s a grey border
   and more white beyond that. I have my hex codes waiting but whenever I try to
   replace them in my stylesheet, nothing happens. I’ve copied the code I’ve been
   trying to modify if that helps.
 * > 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; }
   > #page {
   >  background-color: white; text-align: left;

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 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colors/#post-629634)
 * If you doing this via the theme editor online, you will need to change the permissions
   to 777.
 * Alternatively, do it via a text editor and upload the saved file after the changes.

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