Changing Background Color in a Flash

Greetings! Most of you who are familiar with programming probably won't find this tutorial-post much help. But at the same time there are so many people out there who might think programming is a pain in the butt. Anyway I would like to show you a simple way of changing the background color of your website based on xooArticles. I've had some thoughts about starting something like a "how-to" tutorial series, so I highly appreciate any comments, ideas and suggestions.

Let's start:

First of all FTP to your site and open cs.css file that is located at templates/Default/css/

Find the following code as shown in the image below:



On the fifth line you can find the background-color property that sets the background color of an element. Well, here you can play with the color value which can be either a color name (red), an RGB value (rgb(255,0,0)), or a hex number (#FF0000). For exapmle if you set #000000 value, the background color of your website will be black.

Here you can download a useful tool named Color Picker. Some of you may have heard of it and probably use it already so I think there's no need to rewrite all the features since they're already described on their website. Folks, if it's the first time you've heard of it, just adopt it as the new useful tool that is color-friendly.

On the next line you can find the background-image property that sets an image as the background. The value url(URL) is the path to an image. So, bg.gif image can easily be replaced by your own image. Play with it and see what you get.

P.S. Don’t forget to save the cs.css file after the changes you’ve made.