Background Color

If your using firefox add firebug to your addons, it will help you find most things to change within the css.

you need to edit the general.css usually line 7 look for

Also you will have to chmod (change file permissons) to 777 on your css files within templates/tmpl_uni/css.

Do a Google search for HTML Color Codes.  A wealth of free code charts out there.  I even search for the particular hues occassionally like "Blue HTML Color Codes".  Try it find one you like and bookmark it.

Signed,

Reginald

Can be a browser thing, for editing you can use better Firefox, but not always. so try different browser...

You can edit your css file with a text editor and send it to your server while using FTP...

You can easily find free software to do that ;-)

css files must be writeble on the server,  if you use the admin - css settings...

Yes on the FTP server you must set the map themes/uni/css/ al the css files writeble 666 or 777

let me say I don't now winSCP as ftp proggie, for this I use Filezilla (a free ftp proggie) With this you can tranport files from your PC to the ftp server and back. Or give maps/files write right and back. (Cmod)

To cmod a map or a serie of files from 644 (not writeble) to 666 (writeble) you login to your ftp proggie and login to your ftpserver. Go to the map Themes/uni/css (click this on) to see all the files in that map. Now you kan cmod every file mannuelly or use the shift key to select all files and cmod them in once. 

If your winscp not have the option cmod, then use a real ftp programm like what I have its free. after cmod the css files, you can login to your admin section www.yoursite.xxx/admin  and use the inbuild css editor.

Hope its clear for you?

Exactly........heres a couple of links to help you visually....the guide is for 2.1.7 and were on version 3.1 now.

how to change cmod with filezilla

a guide how to use filezilla and download link

Ok just change it to read

body
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color:#ffffff;

font-family:Arial;
font-size:12px;
color:#000000;
}.

or if your going to use an image replace the background-color bit with

background:url('../images/xxxxx.jpg') center top no-repeat;

you can change the color to your preference...google css colors or goolge adobe colour wheel for some fun.

you can always change the permissions back to the original setting after you have finished your site.

Good tip though if your site is sitting live on a server viewable to the public, create a index.html file with an image saying that your site is coming soon, if some one comes accross your site thier browser will pick up the index.html first instead of the index.php.....when you finshed your site you can remove it to open it to the public.

Also i would recommend this mod for security http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/406