[support] A shot in the dark - was Drupal themes

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You may want to look at this, a drupal theme generator.  Works well and is
easy to understand and use.
http://drupal.org/node/43449

> Please advise on what needs to be known or done when changing the look of
> a site.   I've been playing with one theme and have a good reason to
> believe that I'm missing something.  I started with fancy style and hoping
> that it wouldn't be that difficult as it appears that style.css is the
> file that needs to be editted.
>   as the main style sheet.
>
>
>     I'm just trying to change the font colors and background colors for
> the main content area.  So, in style.css I see any number of labelled
> class and ids.  Matching them up with something in the php and later
> xhtml file is not at all clear to me.  Where is such and such class or
> id being used?
>
>   I'm just taking a shot in the dark, thinking, "well, maybe this style
> (class or id)  goes with this text on the web page.  Does that make
> sense, what I'm trying to describe about my confusion and the conviction
> that I'm missing some information somehow.
>
>   I really didn't want it to be this complicated and it didn't seem like,
> from the feedback I got, that it would be this difficult.
>
>   The site in question is
>   http://ghwilliamscollaborative.com
>   It is obvious that the site has problems with the styles for the site.
>   Please advise.
>   Bruce
> "Boerland, Bert" <bert.boerland at getronics.com> wrote:
>   -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]On
> Behalf Of Bruce
>
>>They want to see a black background directly around the image/photograph,
>> to bring out the
>> picture in terms of how they like it.
>
> All drupal themes use CSS. It is trival to change the colors. Just look at
> the different CSS files for a theme. Less trivial to make a nice
> colorscheme let alone to come up with a nice theme. Buts just changing the
> background color would be a no brainer.
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