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[rippless Friend ripplessJoin date: September 2008Posts: 28Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 6]

#138031

I’m using the default color for the quartz template…how do I change the gray background boxes to black?

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Rachel

[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

#290776

Hi
Please kindly say more detail and very helpful if you have any screenshots

[rippless Friend ripplessJoin date: September 2008Posts: 28Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 6]

#290969

The Body position is a medium gray color, and I would like it to be black. My site is http://www.ssscommercial.com
thank you

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#290976

It is a simple css change.

Rather than show you exactly what fromm the off try this.

Install firefox on your system then install the firebug plugin for it.

You can then open your website and examine any element of your page. Simply open your site and click on the little bug in the bottom right corner.

Then click the inspect button on the firebug menu that appears. Move the moust the the item you want to inspect and click on it. You will then see all the css for that element in yhe little box on the right. You cna even edit that css live and see the results immediately on your screen. Onve you have worked out the changes you want to make you can go and edit the respective file in your JA template.

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1. Arvind Chauhan

[mariovfx Friend mariovfxJoin date: May 2008Posts: 16Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3]

#290987

<em>@imsleepy 111625 wrote:</em><blockquote>

This will take out all of the nasty code that Word wants to include.</blockquote>

That is an understatement of the problem.

I gave up with word as a spell checker and used iespell instead (free and checks any online page) but the main problem with that is it uses a US dictionary and we all know that they don’t spell propper like what we Brits do.;)

Or, we need to nest the two modules inside the front page article on top of the text!

I have provided you with the screen shot and have not heard back. would you please reply.

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#290996

Must resist urge to take the piss…….

To bring this back on topic (before I go into an anti merkan spelling rant), I have done the firebug thing and there are only 2 or 3 minor css colour (spelt correctly, check its Latin roots) changes. It looks like #0E0E0E was used instead of #000000 to show an outline to the modules/content. One change for the content area and one for the module on the right to #000000 still looks ok with the current font colours.

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1. Arvind Chauhan

[rippless Friend ripplessJoin date: September 2008Posts: 28Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 6]

#291165

Thanks for all the input, I’ll get to making some changes. How big should the images be?

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#291170

You should make the filesize for each image as small as possible.

Resize them first in whatever photo editing app you have to the dimentions you want them to be displayed at in your article. The use the save for web option adjusting the image quality to the lowest you can get away with for that particular image.

I use Photoshop but not everyone has that.

Some excellent tools for doing this are GIMP (free and now runs in windows as well as linux) or irfan view, also free.

[jwellman Friend jwellmanJoin date: April 2008Posts: 543Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 115 Thanked: 59 times in 21 posts]

#291171

One of your largest images is over 258,000 bytes. One of the biggest things I noticed were the thumbnails in your menu section. They are the same byte size as your slideshow images?

Depending on what image (and site) I’m working with, I try to keep the image sizes in the slideshows at around 50-70K in byte size (if possible).

[jwellman Friend jwellmanJoin date: April 2008Posts: 543Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 115 Thanked: 59 times in 21 posts]

#291174

Also you are using the words, “Designed By” at the bottom of your site. You might consider rewording per JA’s rules and regs.

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