general:
to change images (particular background images set in the stylesheet) you will probably need to use ftp to access them in the theme folder (often in a /images/ or /img/ subfolder);
to change fonts and colors, you would do the edits in style.css of the theme (or any of the other stylesheets that the theme might have);
in ‘dashboard’ ‘appearance’ ‘editor’ – then select style.css
details might vary with some themes.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_Files
Thanks for the reply!
Hopefully you (or anyone 🙂 )could clarify to me a little more about this image change; so I go to ftp to view that particular theme’s folder, and find the image I want to change and …
Then what – do I just replace the image I want with a new one (with this example it would be the background image and the “boat” image)? Then remove the old one?
How do I name the new image to ensure it’s going to the background and replaces the old one. I assume I name it with the same name “background” or how do I do it..?
This part I think I can handle if I can do it without touching any html code.
But with style.css sheet html coding and font changes I don’t know.
A question about the fonts; I went to see that style.css and found the font part of it.
The current font is white – so if I want to change it to for example blue – do I just delete the white from there and type in “blue” or some kind of “code number” to blue color?
How do I know what to type there…?
How about the font size – if I want bigger font, do I just replace the current size by typing in a bigger number….?
Excuse me for silly questions but I really don’t know anything about html.
so I go to ftp to view that particular theme’s folder, and find the image I want to change and …
you download the image to your local computer – then edit is with a graphic program (such as photoshop or gimp or ..), then re-upload it to the same location.
the ‘boat’ image is a sample image for theme preview – you don’t hav eto woory about this. you can add and remove images to your posts from the post editor.
How do I name the new image to ensure it’s going to the background and replaces the old one. I assume I name it with the same name “background” or how do I do it..?
a: (easier) you keep the same image name;
or
b: you save it under a new image name, and change the name in style.css
question about the fonts; I went to see that style.css and found the font part of it.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp
font-color is color: #123def;
about color codes, see for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors
How about the font size – if I want bigger font, do I just replace the current size by typing in a bigger number….?
basically – yes (there should have been some info in the link to w3school.com)
i don’t know a concise tutorial about css, but i keep looking things up in http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
‘a little practice does a lot of good’