Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Template help

Any expert bloggers out there (*cough* Josh) know how to play around with the blogger settings? Mainly I'm interesting in getting rid of the pink text. Aside from chipping away at my masculinity, it's a little rough on the eyes. Also I'd like to use my own banner image. The current image is the one that most closely approximates the theme "The Long Road Ahead." I'm sure the metaphor inherent to this theme is pretty clear, but I plan to explain it a bit more in a future entry.

1 Comments:

At 12:08 AM, Blogger Josh Staiger said...

Hey Ashish,

At the top of your template under:

/* -- basic html elements -- */

You'll see the following:

a {color: #DD6599; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;}
a:visited {color: #D6A0B6;}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: #FD0570;}

The color fields in this code are what specify your link colors.

a controls how general links are displayed.

a:visited controls how they are displayed after they've already been visited once.

a:hover controls how they are displayed when you mouse-over them.

Colors can be specified as words (blue, green, black, grey), or as hex RGB values as above (#RRGGBB - so #FF0000 would be bright red, #005500 would be dark green, #8888FF would be light blue, etc).

To change your banner image, look under:

/* -- layout -- */

and change the url in the following code to point to whichever image you want:

#header div {background: transparent url(http://www.blogblog.com/snapshot/header-01.gif) bottom left no-repeat;}

(you may also have to tweak some of the other images to match)

 

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