background colour

[shopping.uk]

How and where do i change the background colour and text from the default 'white/black'

Quite new to coding so please tell me which file and the 'text' in that file that needs editing.

Thanks

[pgmarshall]

Depending on which template you are using ...

Look in catalog/templates/ <your template name> /stylesheet.css

If you open this file and look for the following:

BODY {
background: #ffffff;
color: #000000;
margin: 0px;
}

Just change the hex references above to what you need.

If you look through the rest of this file you will see that you change most of the layout, style and colours in this file.

Hope this helps,

[ming]

what about if only want to changed the side color only not inside the display, could you tell where to changed?

thanks

[pgmarshall]

ming,

The best thing to do is to download Firefox and an addin called Firebug - this will allow you to "inspect" different bits of your homepage and display at the bottom which classes within the stylesheet you need to change.

Just be aware that some of the classes are used in more than one place!

More specifically for your question you will need to add a style to the left column - look in mainpage.tpl.php for

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<?php
// Hide Left Column if not to show
if (DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE == 'false' or DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE_COLUMN_LEFT_OFF =='false') {
?>
<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(bts_select('column', 'column_left.php')); // BTSv1.5 ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->
<?php
}
?>
</table></td>
<!-- content //-->
<td width="100%" valign="top"><?php
require (bts_select ('content')); // BTSv1.5
?></td>
<!-- content_eof //-->
<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<?php
// Hide column_left.php if not to show
if (DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE == 'false' or DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE_COLUMN_RIGHT_OFF =='false') {
?> 
<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(bts_select('column', 'column_right.php')); // BTSv1.5 ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->
<?php
}
?> 
</table>

This is the table which produces the basic layout for all pages - you can see the left and right columns

<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

and the main centre box

<td width="100%" valign="top"><?php
require (bts_select ('content')); // BTSv1.5
?></td>

You can add a style to each of these if you wanted to colour the cells differently.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

[ming]

thanks, i will try that