Can't change colors

[dcouchman]

I have a store with white text on a black background. I want to change this so that the background is white and the text black.

So I go into design / themes etc, and make some changes...

And whatever I do, I can't get the color changes to apply. I've tried changing themes completely. I've tried changing the color scheme, I've tried the advanced themes configuration. Seems I can have any color I like as long as it's black.

Any ideas?

[Duncan Rounding]

This may help you...

Using Firefox install the Firebug add-in. Do a page preview in Actinic. Cut and paste the link generated into Firefox, press F12 to launch the Firebug add-in and then select Inspect. Click on the text that you want to change in the Firefox browser window and you will then see the css styles applied to it.

[dcouchman]

This may help you...

Using Firefox install the Firebug add-in. Do a page preview in Actinic. Cut and paste the link generated into Firefox, press F12 to launch the Firebug add-in and then select Inspect. Click on the text that you want to change in the Firefox browser window and you will then see the css styles applied to it.

OK. I did that. This points me to the actinic.css file in /site1/PreviewHTML. I assume that this file is generated by Actinic when you press the preview button. I also assume that it's generated from the \site1\actinic.css.

So, I meddled with \site1\actinic.css. This has a section:

/*body specific*/
body{
background-color: NETQUOTEVAR:BGCOLORCSS;
background-image:url(NETQUOTEVAR:BGIMAGECSS);
margin-top...

So I commented out the NETQUOTEVAR:BGCOLORCSS; and put in a specific colour (#fff.

Bloddy thing still doesn't change. What am I doing wrong?

[Duncan Rounding]

The add-in shows you the area to look in the css file. The changes are made inside Actinic - Design View - in the drop down select Actinic Stylesheet - you can then make changes in the code view window.

EDIT - is this a version v7 or v8 site?

EDIT2: The edit you're trying to make - changing the background colour of the body can't be right as this would affect the whole site.

EDIT3: Do you have a URL for this?

[dcouchman]

I've found out what was causing this problem, and it leaves me feeling foolish. I'll note it here in case it helps someone else:

The problem was a background image, which was a plain black square. Tiled, this fills the whole design with black, and the image doesn't go away when you change the colour scheme or the theme.