I'm pretty sure the background on that skin is an image file, so changing colors won't work too easily.

Better to work with 240-RC2 because it's pretty damned stable and radically different internally than the entire 1.* generation. You will get all the help you could imagine here in the forums, and eventually all the documentation will catch up. If you do all your customization in 1.* you'll have to one day migrate the whole package, effectively doubling your work.

Hey a link to your blog is a good idea. I mean, I can try to go by memory of all the different bits, or just click your link and see *exactly* what's happening in your neck of the interwoods.

Awesome thank you very much. I cannot believe I was overlooking that (img files are the background). Let me play with this a bit and I will be back tomorrow with my link because I have a feeling I will definately have more questions...

I will stick with 240-RC2 like you said. That definately makes more sense.

To change the background of my skin I went to ../blogs/skins/SKIN_YOU_ARE_USING/image/ and located the name of the background image file.

I renamed it, then uploaded the background I wanted to the same folder and renamed it to the original file name. There was no editing of CSS required. But you do need to make sure the file extension is the same .JPG, .PNG, etc.

Don't know if that's a kosher way to do it or not, but it worked.

-Doris-