Changing background to black with PGTheme & Carbon colorpack

polopaul69
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Joined: 2007-01-12
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Posted: Sat, 2007-01-27 03:28

I am using PGTheme & Colorpack Carbon and i want to change the background from gray to black in all areas of my gallery2 site (only the outside bits black).
I know i need to edit the CSS but what lines do i need to edit and what coding do i need to use.

Can anyone assist please.

(Attached are 2 pages off my site to show you what i mean)

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gaynormcc
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Posted: Sun, 2007-01-28 02:46

Hi Polopaul69

In the color.css for the PG colorpack:-

*The first colour numbered at the top of the page is #gallery {color:!important;

That is the text of the main gallery where it shows the album we are in and things like Options and Login.

*The Next number we find is
background-Color;!important;
with a number... which in your case will be the charcoal one you want to change to black.

*The third colour is
}body.gallery{ background-color:!important}

That is the colour that comes up very first before the actual webpage comes up on top of it.
You might want to make that black too.

Hope this helps.
Be careful with a stark black that the text shows clearly. Sometimes a very stark contrast has the effect of looking into the sun. That text colour is the first mentioned above. If it looks too contrasty, change it to light grey.

Gaynor
 
polopaul69
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Posted: Mon, 2007-01-29 02:54

Thanks for that. Looks alot better now. One thing though, how do i change the colour of the text at the bottom in the footer.(on the hover stuff that changes colour) - The copyright info stuff
 
gaynormcc
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Posted: Mon, 2007-01-29 07:48

Hi
I am checking these.
It seems as if the name of the owner of the copyright is coloured by the 8th colour down in the CSS, "gallery a{color important;}, and its hover by the colour below it (9) #gallerya:hover

EDIT:- THe above is correct.
The below is not!
I'll check more.

EDIT 2

The hover of the standard copyright words around those are coloured by the very first colour at the top of the CSS,
#gallery color{!important}
which also controls most of the text on the background of the gallery.

I have yet to find what controls the normal colour of that text.

I should be able to find it by comparing two css files I have for different color schemes, but that needs peace and quiet, so will be later. :)

Gaynor