CSS customization to MistyLook. Help, please!

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  sske · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 4:44 am

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  Hi:

  Thanks in advance for your time in reading/responding to this posting. Here’s my situation: I’m customizing a WordPress theme called MistyLook 3.7.1 by Sadish. I was able to change the header, links, body (background color). But there are two areas left that I would like to change but I cannot find where in the stylesheet they are. Here are the two areas:

  1). The sidebar on the far right. I’d like to change the solid grey background color for the areas including archives, categories, tags, pages, blogroll etc.
  2). The bounding box that surrounds the sidebar, header and posting area. This large bounding box sits ontop of the body (background). Basically, I want to apply one color to the background of the whole page and I’ve already figured it out for the body background. I just need to know where to go in the coding for the rest of the page. I hope that’s clear.

  My site is: kristinastevens.com/wordpress
  My style sheet is: http://www.kristinastevens.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/kstevens/style.css

  Thanks so much for any insight you have to offer. I really appreciate it. Have a wonderful evening!

  All my best,
  Kristina

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 4:52 am

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  Sorry you are in the wrong forum. Head over to http://wordpress.ORG/support/ which is where self-hosted wordpress blogs are supported.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

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  sske · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:48 pm

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  Thanks so much. I was confused about the wordpress.com vs. wordpress.org. That cleared it up. Sorry for wasting your time!

  -Kristina

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:52 pm

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  Not a problem, and you are welcome.

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  bcphotoadventures · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 1:39 pm

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  I have another similar question. I achieved changing the colors at http://BCphotoadventures.wordpress.com, but I can’t figure out how to lessen the space between the header image (note I changed the size of the header image so I would not have to crop it) and the body?

  Thanks, I hope!

  TBC

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 3:48 pm

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  Your header image is only 245px tall but the height set in #headerimage in the CSS is 321. Change 321 to 245 to get rid of the extra space.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm

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  Have to say that is a great adaptation of Misty Look.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 3:54 pm

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  Yeah, I agree.

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  bcphotoadventures · Member · Feb 12, 2009 at 12:49 am

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  Vivian and TSP,

  Thank you both for your compliments. I must say that designing one’s own and other websites really helps for those who wish to modify themes.

  I feel like a dimwit not catching the incorrect height. Many thanks! It looks much better now!

  Take care,

  TBC (The Barfoot Contessa, alias Margo Taussig Pinkerton)
  http://www.BCphotoadventures.com
  http://BCphotoadventures.WordPress.com

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 12, 2009 at 12:57 am

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  You’re welcome.