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[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#22613

Also try, background-color

[ksmadhav]

ksmadhav

#22614

i copied the whole thing that Josh gave me and replaced the pretty messy code i had in my Custom CSS. Still no avail with the menubar.

@prasanna: you are right, i dont think folksolid is added in the font family could you guide me as to how i should do that?

**and i dont have child themes in my wp. is that an issue? pls. guide me there also.***

@kenneth: i even implemented your corrections, except for the font, nothing else changes. i probably could give an admin user and pass maybe one of you could look into what the issue actually is. this is asking too much from a forum, but i am totally new to tweaking themes..

pl. do respond.

[ksmadhav]

ksmadhav

#22615

my other issue is, now i am tweaking a test site and finally in a day or two i have to implement this onto the main site we have. is there any way to just lift this theme from the test site and put it to the main site with all the custom edits in place? coz, doing it all again would be cumbersome and i might make mistakes again and again and might have to keep asking for help here which wont look good!

[ksmadhav]

ksmadhav

#22616

there are so many more things i need to do to this tweaking-the-theme process. probably i should start off with learning the basics of css so that i can atleast understand what code says what. for starters all i need

-> is the menu hover to change to a color (the golden yellow one)

-> menu font to be changed to folksolid

-> and home-page pane’s excerpt to be in justified alignment.

-> and if possible i want the sidebar, but not as wide as it is in default. more like 60-70% of the original width.

pls. let me knw of these tweaks if they are possible and guide me through.

a million thanks in advance 🙂

madhav

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#22617

Try adding !important after the colour code,

Try this.

#header-menu > li:hover > a,

#header-menu > li.current-menu-item:hover >a,

#header-menu > li.current-menu-ancestor > a,

#header-menu ul li:hover > a,

#header-menu ul li.current-menu-item > a,

#header-menu ul li.current-menu-ancestor > a {

background: #995500 !important;

color: #000099 !important;

}

If you don’t know how to set up a child theme, you might download the graphene child theme from here – http://www.prasannasp.net/graphene-child-theme-template/

If you’re in hurry, it’s better to hire a professional.

Else, you can give me the login credentials, and I’ll inspect what’s happening in your site. And I can tweak one or two things for free.. 😉 Use my contact form to send UN and PW – http://prasannasp.net/contact

Custom page width is implemented in the 1.6 version. We are now testing the beta version. Wait a few days for it.

BTW, where do you live? Chennai?

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#22618

probably i should start off with learning the basics of css

Unfortunately, it really is beyond the scope of this forum to actually teach basic CSS, although we do talk a lot about tweaking CSS code once you’ve got those basics, and neat tricks and techniques you can do with it.

Since you are willing to learn (thank you!), I highly recommend that you visit the W3school’s CSS pages here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

I learned a lot from those tutorials. Try clicking on any of the “try it yourself” links, where you can experiment with code without risking messing up your own page.

I’m sure I’ve recommended other good sources in the past, as have Josh and Prasanna and many others. Perhaps we should start a sticky thread just for these resources. Hmmm……

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#22619

Perhaps we should start a sticky thread just for these resources. Hmmm……

Agreed!! Let’s run it by Syahir. I think this would be GREATLY beneficial to the community!!

[ksmadhav]

ksmadhav

#22620

Prasanna: I live in Hyderabad. I might hire somebody, but with the budget we have, we cant go for all out pros who charge a bomb. (the least i found somebody to design a custom wp theme was about 10-15K Indian Rupees). so when i stumbled on graphene, i found it extremely useful and started tweaking it, but the css is killing me as i hardly know anything about it. I would send you and josh a list of specifications, pl. let me know if anyone of you know anybody who does stuff at nominal rates. It would be of great help. All i need are a few customizations of the homepage and a few for the normal blogposts.

@Kenneth, @Josh: starting off such a thread would be of a great help for all the newbies out there. I know its not possible to teach CSS over these forums, but your idea of putting together these resources is just so cool!

will implement the changes and see if i have anyluck.

thanks a lot again!a

Madhav

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#22621

It seems you’ve succeed in changing the menu font colour on mouseover. Keep trying like this. CSS is a real fun world.

Look at my blog, I’ve assigned the different hover colours for different menu items. – http://prasannasp.net You can check out my stylesheet here – http://prasannasp.net/wordpressblog/wp-content/themes/graphene-child/style.css

BTW, what’s your budget?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#22622

Sorry for entering this thread and saying something of topic, but I have to say that I would really love that sticky you guys are talking about… Links to all helpful tutorials!!! YES!!! I’ll be very happy :)))

AND it’ll reduce the many questions I’d have to ask on this Forum, leaving space for the needing 😀