WordPress Custom Theme editing problem

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  atomicacorn · Member · Feb 16, 2010 at 2:08 am

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  Hi, yesterday I made a custom theme for WordPress after linking it to my site by following these instructions:

  http://www.webhostingsearch.com/arti…e-tutorial.php

  This is the blog: http://www.thewebsiteofdaniel.net/blog

  It’s all set up fine and I can change the font and the background colour etc. by editing this CSS file:

  /*
Theme Name: DeathMonkey
Theme URI: The Website of Daniel
Description: My custom WordPress theme
Version: 1.0
Author: Daniel Batty
Author URI: http://www.thewebsiteofdaniel.net

  */

  body{
  margin: 0;
  font-family: Calibri; Arial
  font-size: 12px;
  font-color: #ffffff
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: top;
  background: url("images/bg.png")
  color: #ffffff;
  }

  a:link, a:visited{
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #336699;
  }

  a:hover{
  text-decoration: none;
  }

  #wrapper{
  margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
  width: 750px;
  text-align: left;
  }

  #header{
  float: left;
  width: 750px;
  }

  #box{
  float: left;
  width: 500px;
  }

  .sidebar{
  float: left;
  width: 240px;
  background: #eeeeee;
  margin: 0 0 0 10px;
  display: inline;
  }

  #footer{
  clear: both;
  float: left;
  width: 750px;
  }

  .comments-template{
  margin: 10px 0 0;
  border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding: 10px 0 0;
  }

  .comments-template ol{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 15px;
  list-style: none;
  }

  .comments-template ol li{
  margin: 10px 0 0;
  line-height: 18px;
  padding: 0 0 10px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
  }

  .comments-template h2, .comments-template h3{
  font-family: Georgia, Sans-serif;
  font-size: 16px;
  }

  .commentmetadata{
  font-size: 12px;
  }

  .comments-template p.nocomments{
  padding: 0;
  }

  .comments-template textarea{
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  }

  I want to set a picture (1280x1024) as my background (the same one as my homepage) but it just shows up with a white screen...Likewise, I tried adding in "font-color: #NUMBER" to set the font color and yet again, nothing changes... any ideas?

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  supportbot · Member · Feb 16, 2010 at 2:08 am

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