Thanks
The color of the topbar is managed by the template.css in this folder templatesja_methyscsstemplate.css around line 1190
#ja-top-panel {
background-color: #111111;
}
Change the value in red with color preferred
Anyway i think could be better to change the color of the text of the mod_janewsticker through the /templates/ja_methys/css/mod_janewsticker.css at line 46
.ja-headlines .ja-headlines-item a {
color: #666; <--------------------------------------------------change to color: #fff;
}
The search module is a module published in the top-panel position, unpublish it and create a new custom-html module with your info and publish it in the top-panel position