emilyTK

No problem. Thanks for pointing it out to me in the first place! 🙂

Check the icon in Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools and you will see how they are being declared in your theme. If you check the envelope in Enigma in Dev Tools, you will see that its CSS selector is “.fa-envelope:before”. Check the icon you’re trying to swap, and Dev Tools will give you the selector you need.

If you have Enigma running, then no, all you need is “.fa-envelope:before” or whatever element you are trying to change. If you have a different theme than Enigma, you’ll find out what you need by checking in Dev Tools.

If that won’t work for you, would you provide a link to your website so we could check it out?

Enigma declares all the icons in wp-content/themes/enigma/style.css, but if you edit that, all your changes will be gone as soon as you update Enigma.

See if this changes something in your child stylesheet:

.fa-envelope:before{
	content:"\f0b1" !important;
}

Ohey, take a look at the Font Awesome Cheatsheet. It provides you with the icon codes for version 3.2.1. You can use those codes in your custom CSS, where you would simply put something like this:

.fa-envelope:before{
	content:"\f0b1";
}

You won’t need the full code, just the four bits between x and ; which you then append to a backslash \ like I did in the example above.

This sounds like a How-To and Troubleshooting, or maybe even a Localhost installs problem.
Try asking your question in those forums. Faster solutions guaranteed. 🙂

As for #1, here’s a CSS background gradient generator:
http://ie.microsoft.com/Testdrive/Graphics/CSSGradientBackgroundMaker/Default.html

It was a simple question, and I tried explaining the problem, like I would to anyone. No offense intended, really.

Happy to help!

(And what I did was take a screen shot, import it into Photoshop, hit T, write “that thing ->”, save, and upload to imgur. No hard skills required, lol.)