In this episode we will begin the initial changes to the blogs css styling:

Colors: The blogs colors are defined within various tags, you will need to go through the tags one by one and change the values to your desired colors. (color tags are always preceded by “#” and look like this #ff9900 or this #ccc they are known as Hex Values. Only certain colors use abbreviated tags and usually you will be better using “six” values. There are many freeware tools for selecting, mixing and defining colors (yep… google “color picker”) find one download, install and use it to define your colors.

ColourLovers is a great web resource for Colors and Patterns.

(sounds of hammering, drilling and sawing come from countzeeros css editing shed)

  • here with the css color values changed blue_1024_ff3_sbgrippy_2.jpg
  • we need to change some of the graphics (images) to complete the transformation.
  • In order to do this download the /yourblog.yourdomain.yourtld/wp-content/themes/theme_name/images/ folder to your Hard Drive /work/ folder and then open these in your graphic editor of choice (mine is PS CS3) :mrgreen:
  • Change the relevant images and upload them; Note if you change the original names you will need to edit the css to “reattach” them to the theme.
  • At this stage we will only be replacing the color values for the relevant images, more image editing later…

We will leave the “main” Image alone for now…

next post: typography versus the internet…

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