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August 29, 2005
Want to to Change Your Colors?
Changing the colors of stuff on your TerraBlog is simple, provided you know a little basic CSS, which is easy as pie. When you look at your stylesheet (probably labeled styles-site.css in your template editing menu), you'll see a bunch of code that looks something like:
body { margin: 16px 0px 16px 0px; background-color: #E9E9E9; text-align: center; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, MS Sans Serif, Arial; font-size:small; }a {text-decoration: underline;}
a:link {color: #0052C2;}
a:visited {color: #0052C2;}
a:active {color: #999999;}
a:hover {color: #999999;}
It's important to keep in mind that this stuff is your friend! DO NOT BE AFRAID OF IT. No, really. No whining.
OK, check out the bits in the code that look like:
color: #999999;
That's the color. If you replace this color value (also called a "hex value" or "color name") you'll change the color.
Here a handy chart with a few color values that you can rip off. If you want more complicated color values, try the Firefox ColorZilla extension, or find the hex values for colors in something like Photoshop.
Also, while you're at it, go here and read up on CSS.
Play around. Experiment. Have fun. But save copies of whatever you're editing by copying and pasting your templates into a simple text editor first. That way, if you screw up you'll have some older code to fall back on. Trust me, wiping out the look of your whole blog because you killed something is not fun (I've done that a several times in the past). So be careful, but go play!
Blog Guts | By Hugo Fitch | 11:38 AM
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I really like the visibone color lab.
http://visibone.com/colorlab/
It's pretty cool for seeing all the combinations and how this text color looks with that background color...try it!
Posted by: Krista at August 29, 2005 12:05 PM
Here's a great list of color tools.
Posted by: another terrablogs admin at August 29, 2005 12:33 PM
Hugo,
I tried to post this in our previous conversation on terrablogs somewhere under "blog guts", but the comments were closed.
Anyways, I stumbled across this blog, and the sidebar was very close to what I was looking for. http://blog.contentious.com/ .
Under "MY MOST RECENT COMMENTS
What Amy's been saying around the web...", she is somehow able to keep track of her own comments on other people's blogs. This seems very cool, since I have been conversing with various people on chattablogs, covblogs, atlblogs, baltiblogs etc. and then I will forget about the conversation because i have no record of it. Also it is sometimes fun to see what others are saying in different places.
So I wondered if anything like this was possible here, either with this del.icio.us . thing or with some other method.
Posted by: Mello at September 16, 2005 12:43 PM
Sorry for taking so long to respond, Mello. If you can figure out a way to do it, go for it! This type of thing would be a cool feature, but it's not currently something that we do.
Posted by: Ron (HF) at October 3, 2005 04:11 PM
How do I change the background part that has the banner and text? I got the far background changed. Thanks! Tanya
Posted by: Tanya at October 26, 2006 01:12 AM
