Hi!

I'm trying to follow this tutorial as best I can and wasn't having any problems until I tried to to post my "page title" and the code below into my CSS box.

body {
background: #7B6D61;
}

Nothing changed and nothing showed up. I don't have any other code entered into my CSS box. Also, I selected "dark" for the background color. I wasn't sure if maybe the color # had changed as it's been a few years since this tutorial was written or I'm doing something else wrong. My username is staceylewisphotography.com and i'm attempting to learn css/html myself so i can "feed myself" instead of asking to be fed.

You have a theme set for your site, so you'll need to add !important to the background color specification to override the theme. This CSS will change the color:

 
body {
background: #7B6D61 !important;
}

If you plan to override all of the settings of the theme, I'd recommend you set the theme for your site and all of your galleries to default. That will allow you to customize without the need to override things you have no intention of using.

--- Denise

Thanks, Denise! I thought I was going crazy! But, I'm wondering why I had a problem with that old tutorial and a newer one I was following (the 50 pg CSS tut) didn't say to add or delete important...any ideas why?

Thanks so much,

Originally Posted by denisegoldberg You have a theme set for your site, so you'll need to add !important to the background color specification to override the theme. This CSS will change the color: body { background: #7B6D61 !important; } If you plan to override all of the settings of the theme, I'd recommend you set the theme for your site and all of your galleries to default. That will allow you to customize without the need to override things you have no intention of using. --- Denise

Originally Posted by Stacey L Thanks, Denise! I thought I was going crazy! But, I'm wondering why I had a problem with that old tutorial and a newer one I was following (the 50 pg CSS tut) didn't say to add or delete important...any ideas why?

Why would you think that a tutorial would include everything you needed to know about CSS? A tutorial steps you through how to do something but usually does not attempt to explain everything.

If you want a starting point for experimenting with CSS I would recommend taking a look at Ivar's excellent CSS (Customizing SmugMug Simplified). Or maybe that's the newer document that you were referring to above. (And that doesn't document everything about CSS either.)

Keep playing, and don't hesitate to post your questions here.

--- Denise

Well, that's the one I was referring to and the reason I thought it would include everything I may need to know was because it seemed to be written for beginners--which I am. So, I'm aware of what a tutorial is and what I thought I was getting into.

Originally Posted by denisegoldberg Why would you think that a tutorial would include everything you needed to know about CSS? A tutorial steps you through how to do something but usually does not attempt to explain everything. If you want a starting point for experimenting with CSS I would recommend taking a look at Ivar's excellent CSS (Customizing SmugMug Simplified). --- Denise