Quick and Easy Changes to Your WordPress Theme : Change Your Website Colors in CSS

Posted on May 14th, 2008
by Lisa Stewart: : Better Rankings By Blogging

The easiest way to get a different look is to change colours in your css file. Use an HTML editor and the find/replace function.
Copy your entire css file ( found in Presentation—> Theme editor and usually called stylesheet or style.css or similar.
Copy the entire file into an html editor ( don’t use Word which can sometimes change or add characters in code). Save.
Make sure you keep copy of your original css file ( or any file) somewhere before you make changes.

Find a color (using a hex color chart) you are going to replace and choose the colour you want to replace. Use find/replace function to edit. Test.
Keep going until you get look you want, It can be tricky you may find a styling will make text disappear or colors look strange.

Are You Color challenge and don;t want to go through the hassle?
You can find some very nice color themes online.
Kuler.com has gorgeous color themes available for free. I particularly like Firenze and Blueberry juice. You can also custom design your own themes. This is the best tool of its kind .
Also MediaZeal’s Color Planner

Test colours before you apply theme with many of the free color picker tools available, like yaflaColor

Did you personalize your free Wordpress theme by changing colors? I would love to see them- post link and theme name in comments section. This is a dofollow blog and your link in comments section will be followed.

Helpful Tools For Changing Your WordPress Blog

Free CoffeeCup HTML Editor.
PSPad – a freeware code editor
Bluefish editor
Hex Color Chart

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