Change color of main title

[amphonic]

I can not seem to figure out where to change the color for the main title. The settings in style.css do not seem to do anything. Any ideas?

[PaxIndustria]

Hi,

I am also having this problem. If anyone could enlighten me on this it would be mighty helpfull!

[rhettnyedotorg]

Originally Posted by amphonic

I can not seem to figure out where to change the color for the main title. The settings in style.css do not seem to do anything. Any ideas?

Don't take this the wrong way but here's the long winded, teach-a-person-to-fish answer: Considering the HTML 4.01 specification points out that in-line, html color codes are deprecated, and that CSS should be used for all style related (color, size, etc) attributes to a web page, it's a safe guess that all the colour codes, font size, font colour, etc are specified in the Cascading Style Sheet or .css file being used by the site. Check your 'view source' for it's location, or go the long way round as I did:

While poking around to change the look from default, I used the Web Developer firefox extension to display all the attributes to images on the front page, and found that there was a file called 'header.gif' that was the background for the top-bar-header-area-thing. Cool.
Next I ran a command that you should get under your belt, perhaps write it on your monitor so you don't forget it:

grep -r {text searched} *

it will scan through all the folders (-r: recursive) and files therein (*), searching for the certain {text searched} that you're looking for. So, I ran the trusty old:

grep -r header.gif *

the output showed that 'header.gif' is referenced in the file:

templates/skidoo_too/css/skidoo_too.css

ANYWAYS the main title is an href link, h1 size. So learn a bit about how CSS works if you don't already, and find where H1 is specified (a couple different ways) in the css file. Next I would (and I actually will be,) find where the term 'masthead' may appear in the pligg code using your grep command above, then either remove your link from the title, or change the class of that specific link to whatever colours you may prefer. Clear as mud? you'll find it's in

templates/skidoo_too/body.tpl

referenced therein as:

$tpl_header.tpl.

i guess the template isn't set up right yet but if you want the really short answer you could look in

templates/skidoo_too/header.tpl

and instead of the default which is:

<h1><a href="$my_base_url{$my_pligg_base}">{#PLIGG_Visual _Name#}</a></h1>

(which uses variables changed in other files) you can change it to

<H2><font color="#72fa81">I like Dragons, Horses and Ligers</font><h2>

like I did.

But, considering my first paragraph above this would not be HTML 4.01 compliant.

One caution, don't get confused by the /css folder off of the root of the pligg install as I did! The css file there refers to a header.JPG! Thank goodness it wasn't also .gif, otherwise I'm sure i would have stubbed my toe on that one and cursed my way through this early, early Friday morning.

I couldn't sleep for a couple reasons, one of them being that I installed Pligg immediately before falling asleep last night. dreaming of being the next internet sensation with my site okthisislame.com

Happy coding and hope you'll stick with it! Let me know if i haven't been clear enough.

Cheers
Rhett Nye
okthisislame.com
www.rhettnye.org