indeed, that was precisely and accurately the kind of help needed! thank you mate.
You're welcome. The key to this one was knowing the theme name so I could download the files to examine them.
I know for instance that the rgb value of the color black for instance is #000000 and white is #ffffff wonder how are the colors in drupal themes are only 3 digits?
The three-digit format is a css shorthand notation, where one digit stands for both digits in the r, g, or b component.
For example: #222 is short for #222222. #000 is short for #000000 #fff is short for #ffffff #369 is short for #336699
Such shorthand is compliant css, and can be used in any .css file.
PS - BTW, when I mentioned the argeebee theme's style.css was 'non-standard', I meant only that it didn't look like other drupal theme css files... the file is, in fact, fully standard and compliant css code.
Cheers, --Katin