Hi, Can anyone tell me if I can change the colors on my theme. I am using the Dancing Queen theme. The default colors are shades of blue. I would like to change the colors to greens to match my logo. Is there an easy way to do this. I can edit html but am not fluent in css. Any advice appreciated.

Hiya Valerie,

If you're using the HTML Editor and dealing with code, then the answer would be a simple yes! You can change anything you want to change using code. If you're talking about changing text colors and backgrounds etc. then you'll definitely want to take a look at some CSS tutorials and how it works. For the most part color changing isn't hard at all, finding the particular block of code that goes with a color can sometimes be hectic but then the CSS files are not usually 10 pages long so there's only so many blocks of code to check out hehe. Many people that do CSS themes comment the CSS file nicely so you have at least some idea of what code goes with what area, and trial and error is a wonderful way to learn that part too lol.

You can check out a lot of CSS tutorials by just going to Google and typing "CSS Tutorial" and you'll get a lot of places to learn at. One of the great sites to start at would also be the http://www.w3schools.com/css/ which gives you a lot of info right at your fingertips.

Good luck on your journey and definitely post if you are stuck on something and someone will gladly help you out if they have the answer

Open the Css file and look where it says for example

body {font-size:14px; font-family: Arial; color:#282828; background:#000 now change the background color # to the blue color number you want.

Where you find the word color: # or background: # change the existing number to the color you want... be careful though you are not changing the font color.

My advice make a copy of the website and save the website in a different folder. Open the css and play with it. Each time you make a change in the css save it and then go to the index page and view how it looks, you will see where the color has changed. You will soon get to grips with which colors you are changing.

A good place to get the correct color numbers is:

http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp#wizard scroll down the page a bit to see the color wheel and how to find your color and color number.

Hope this helps

If your theme uses a background picture to provide the color, you will need to edit that picture to contain the colors you want.

I know that a lot of the HTML editor themes here on Coffee Cup use a background .jpg to provide the header and sometimes the sidebar colors, so you may need to edit those files to get all the colors to change. I use a few of them and have the same problem.

If it's all in the CSS file, then the suggestions by AviD and JoAnn are right on. Even if you have a .jpg in the theme for background color, you will still probably need to change some colors in the css file.