Rusty Grunge Modifications

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  angrywhodat · Member · Apr 13, 2012 at 10:54 pm

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  I want to switch to Rusty Grunge, but have a couple questions about it if someone could help. I would want to change the colors of the sidebars, the top splash where the description goes, and the teal-colored text.

  I’m at theangrywhodat.com, but I’m not using that theme yet, until I have identified what changes I can make.

  If all that above can be done, any help identifying the necessary code would be great too :)

  Thank you so much in advance for your help!

  Dominic

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  aerych · Member · Apr 14, 2012 at 12:20 am

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  Hi there,

  If you have the Custom Design upgrade you should be able to make all the changes you mentioned.

  On the Rusty Grunge theme, it looks like both the header and the sidebar are using background images for part of their styling. You could upload your own images and reference them in your custom CSS, or you could get rid of the images and go with a solid background.

  For example, this is the CSS that sets the background of the sidebar:

  #main .widget-area {
      background: url("images/bg-sidebar.png") repeat-y scroll right top transparent;
   }

  You could make the background a solid color instead with something like this:

  #main .widget-area {
      background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red;
  }

  When I’m testing out CSS changes I like to use either Firefox or Chrome for my browser, and use either Firebug (for Firefox) or Chrome’s developer tools to inspect a themes CSS and try out different things until I get things just right. You might give them a try and see how they work for you.

  Hope this helps!