Changing Template Colours
Loads of templates are swarming the web specifically targeted for use with WordPress software. Even though many are great and stylistically may fit with your blogging needs, just doing something simple, like changing the template colours can take blog personalisation to the next level.
A website called ColorCombos.com can help in choosing the colour scheme for your WordPress blog.
Once you’ve chosen your colour palette, navigate to the Editor option under the Appearance tab in the left sidebar of the Dashboard. In the stylesheet, find the necessary lines of code to change in order to change the colours. If you want to change the colour of the background, find code that looks similar to this:
body
{
background: #cedfef;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 20px;
font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;
font-color: #525552;
}
Change the background section to the web colour wanted, such as #cc0000 instead of #cedfef.
For other items, such as link and text colours, find those lines of code in the stylesheet and make the changes. For example, I can change the colour of hyperlinks by doing the following:
body
{
background: #cedfef;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 20px;
font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;
font-color: #525552;
}
Change the #0066CC to another web colour, such as #800000. Now, your hyperlinks will be #800000.
Issues
Some issues arise when template files like to include images to create backgrounds. In this case, you can simply remove the image file and publish a colour to make a one colour background. If you want to get creative, create an image of your own in Photoshop that mimics the design of the original image, but with new colours. Take a look at the template images, which will be included with the template install pack in the images folder.