Font color issue

[GwagDesigns]

I have searched around for how to change the text color, but ive found nothing so far that has helped me. Im using the smugmug classic as of now with my background white site wide, i want all text specially on my home page black, but right now its a grey color and some texts that are only visible to the owner like the following blue links, i cannot see, as they are white and i cannot change them. I need them to be black

Organize: move up (javascript:void(0);) • move down (javascript:void(0);) | hide (javascript:void(0);)
Your Bio | edit (javascript:toggleDIV('editBio','userBio,editBioLi nk','block');)

Gallery titles remain grey, and options such as arrange mode and hide photo remain white as well, even the breadcrumb. I have only succeeded in making half the text look black, but i cant get any more.

Thanks to whoever helps.

http://nikolausphotography.smugmug.com/

[jfriend]

The best thing to do if you want a white background is to first pick a theme that has a white background. That will give you, by default, text on the entire homepage that is compatible with your white background. You can then tweak any details that you want once you have a black on white theme to start with.

For example, you could pick the theme Colors/White and then tweak the background to pure white with no border, much simpler than you can fix all the text colors in all the pages to work with white.

If you pick the Color/White theme and then add this CSS:

.box, .boxTop, .boxBottom {background: white !important;}
#homepage, #category, #smugmug, #smugmug_small, #journal, #filmstrip, #slideshow,
#critique, #allthumbs, #traditional, #singleImage, #content, .smugmug_ajax #extraDiv1 {background:none !important;}

You will have a plain white background and all the text will be compatible with it.

Since your whole site is going to be that way, you might want to set the site-wide theme rather than using just the homepage theme.

If there's some reason you can't use a black on white theme as a starting point, please help me understand why and I'll see what I can do help further.

[GwagDesigns]

I did that but the bottom border from the white theme still appears, half the bread crumb is still there, the border of the white theme appears on galleries where its active. it also messes up my top nav bar. Is there some code that will just change all theme based text? or a code that will get rid of the bottom of the white theme border?

[denisegoldberg]

I did that but the bottom border from the white theme still appears, half the bread crumb is still there, the border of the white theme appears on galleries where its active. it also messes up my top nav bar. Is there some code that will just change all theme based text? or a code that will get rid of the bottom of the white theme border?
This removes the pieces I can see:

#bodyWrapper,
#footer,
#extraDiv2 {
background: none !important;
}
But I can see the edges flash by before the CSS is actually applied.

Somehow I just don't understand using a theme to start with when you really just wanted a plain white background. (That comment isn't really directed at you; there are many, many people here who use themes and then spend a lot of time getting rid of elements of the them. Just seems to me that it would have been easier to start with a clean slate, default (as in no) theme with the background set to dark or light.)

--- Denise

[GwagDesigns]

That seems to take away the box, but my nav bar still is a bit messed up, i tried starting out on default theme and changing the font colors, but that's where i got stuck trying to change certain fonts.

Perhaps you could help me with default as a starting point? all white background, with black font sitewide around, no grey text either. With the nav bar showing correctly stretched.

thanks for all your help!

[jfriend]

That seems to take away the box, but my nav bar still is a bit messed up, i tried starting out on default theme and changing the font colors, but that's where i got stuck trying to change certain fonts.

Perhaps you could help me with default as a starting point? all white background, with black font sitewide around, no grey text either. With the nav bar showing correctly stretched.

thanks for all your help!

Denise had a good suggestion to have just started with no theme and a white background instead of the black background you had. To do that, reset your theme to no theme. Then go to site-wide-customization and pick "Light" for your background color. That will give you the default background and text color you are after without messing with the background or your navbar.

[GwagDesigns]

wow I swear that didn't work the first time i tried it, haha. Looks good so far, ill write back here if i have any other issues.

[denisegoldberg]

Did you intend to leave the originals accessible and available to be saved to a hard drive?

Also - you removed the breadcrumb, but you haven't replaced it with anything for the viewer to identify what he or she is looking at. If someone wants to contact you about a photo, how will they tell you which gallery the photo lives in (other than sending you the URL)? You might want to take a look at a thread that I posted, Are you really sure you want to hide the breadcrumb? Think of your viewers! (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=111484)

--- Denise