Altering Blog Templates

[ZingyZoid]

I would like to change the background color on my blog. I can get all the fonts to change color and style. I can arrange the different sections the way I like but for the life of me I cannot get the darn thing to display a background color or pattern. I can get anything I like to show up in my preview option. What am I not doing? Thanks so much for any help!

 

www.zingsthings.blogspot.com

[Empress Busy Bee]

Towards the beginning it says this:

 

body {

background: #fff

 

Change the fff (which is white) to what color you'd like it.

You'll need all 6 numbers though.

You can put a pattern/picture background there instead. Just be sure to use the tags.

[ZingyZoid]

I do that and I can see the color change in my template preview but my actual blog page doesn't change.

[Empress Busy Bee]

Are you clicking on the "republish" button?

It appears after you save template changes.

[ZingyZoid]

I am. I republish the whole thing not just the index.

[mc_crochets]

I never could get my background to show up with a blogger template either, I'm relived to know I'm not the only one I thought I knew a bit about html, but our class never covered css stylesheets and I ain't paying to take another one

[Donna]

Stacy, I'm not sure why changing the background color like EmpressBusyBee said is not working. I tried it on my secret test blog ! with the same template you're using and it worked for me.

[ZingyZoid]

Thanks everyone for trying to help out and commenting. I don't think that I changed anything important in the template before I tried changing the background but it's entirely possibly... Maybe it's all just a sign that the blog gods don't want me to be messing with things I know nothing about, lol.

[Empress Busy Bee]

Sometimes it's something so simple that we overlook; like an extra space or ; or maybe leaving something out.

I can't tell you how many times I've fought and fought over my websites not being able to figure it out then suddenly it just clicks what I did wrong.

 

I hope you figure it out. :fc

[ZingyZoid]

Thanks so much. It could be anything with me. The only things I know how to do with my blog come from copy/pasting things from other peoples templates or suggestions I read here. It's all guesswork for me, lol.

[noricum]

I've figured it out... you're indeed missing a ";"!

 

Here's what you have in your template:

 

body {

background: #074680

margin:0;

 

It should be:

 

body {

background: #074680;

margin:0;

 

with the ";" after the background colour! (I created a temporary blog, and tried out the difference.)

 

Andrea

[ZingyZoid]

:woohoo Andrea!!! Oh you made my night, lmao!! It works, it works lol. I must have deleted that darn thing when I was playing around and never noticed. Even when I compared my template to the original I didn't see it. so much!

[noricum]

You're welcome! Those sneaky little semicolons are hard to see... and I'm used to having the compiler pointing out any that I've forgotten. I didn't see it myself, until I tried making changes to a test blog... first I did the same number, then I added the extra space, and only *then* did I notice the missing semicolon!

 

Andrea

[Empress Busy Bee]

See, I figured it was something so simple. I do stuff like that ALLLLL the time.

Glad you two figured it out.

[ZingyZoid]

lol Empress, you were right there pointing it out to me too and still I didn't see it. I can be a little thick sometimes.)

[Empress Busy Bee]

No you're not.

My husband is a web designer and he says it's really common to miss little things, even for web designers.

Best thing to do is take a break whenever you're getting frustrated and come back to it later. It really does help.