n8agrin

Just to make it clear to other new users who are trying to make basic changes to newer versions of the default theme, specifically like changing the background color:

As Michelle posted above, in the CSS you will only find this:

/* Begin Structure */
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#page {
background-color: white;
margin: 20px auto;
padding: 0;
width: 760px;
border: 1px solid #959596;
}

This won’t help you one bit.
What you need to change is this bit in the header.php file:



/* To accomodate differing install paths of WordPress, images are referred only here,
and not in the wp-layout.css file. If you prefer to use only CSS for colors and what
not, then go right ahead and delete the following lines, and the image files. */

/*body { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg"); } */
<?php /* Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not */ if ((! $withcomments) && (! is_single())) { ?>
#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>
#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } ?>
#header { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickheader.jpg") no-repeat bottom center; }
#footer { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickfooter.jpg") no-repeat bottom; border: none;}
/* Because the template is slightly different, size-wise, with images, this needs to be set here
If you don't want to use the template's images, you can also delete the following two lines. */

#header { margin: 0 !important; margin: 0 0 0 1px; padding: 1px; height: 198px; width: 758px; }
#headerimg { margin: 7px 9px 0; height: 192px; width: 740px; }
/* To ease the insertion of a personal header image, I have done it in such a way,
that you simply drop in an image called 'personalheader.jpg' into your /images/
directory. Dimensions should be at least 760px x 200px. Anything above that will
get cropped off of the image. */
/*
#headerimg { background: url('<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/personalheader.jpg') no-repeat top;}
*/

It is pulling the image kubrickbgcolor.jpg to do the background color. You can take that out and then put in any normal background-color css style tag to get the desired color.

Hope this helps!