Changing Garland to Black
kurnal - August 9, 2009 - 16:51
How do you turn all of the backgrounds in Garland to black in 6.13? Some simple editing method please, without vast programming, or adding on complex modules?
Please don't tell me to change the body / background code from #edf5fa to #000000 in style.css and reload. That has no effect. It just does not work.
I've been trying for two months to get somewhere with drupal; but as all support articles seem to be restricted to giving just 70% of the information I can't change a thing. Anywhere.
I'm a Unix sysadmin with 25 years experience, not a programmer. So a complete description would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kurnal.
Edited by WorldFallz - moved to appropriate forum.
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Garland uses color.module, which allows you to change the colors used from the theme; if you have enabled color.module, you should be able to change the colors used from the theme.
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Thanks, but insufficient info
Is everything in Drupal so collossally time consuming? In html I would use
<body bgcolor=black>and its done!In Drupal I've got to enable a color.module, research the internet to find out how to do it, then edit garland.info with the words color = TRUE, then edit template.php - but I can't, because the Drupal documentation, only 70% complete as always, doesn't tell me where to put the edits, and I haven't even started yet.
So thank you Kaim, but I still don't stand a hope.
Is Drupal viable? Isn't it usually quicker to write a website from scratch in php and html?
Can someone please tell me, is it possible to change the color of the background to black with a statement or two, or is this trivially simple task yet another major programming job in Drupal?
Thanks again
Kurnal
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There are many things in drupal that are complex, but this isn't one of them:
1. visit admin/build/modules and enable the color module in the 'core optional' fieldset
2. visit admin/build/themes/settings/garland and set the color scheme as desired
Not sure how much easier that could be since there's absolutely no coding of any kind required.
Garland is a complex recolorable theme -- simply changing the background color isn't going to work. If you want to manipulate a theme that way you're better off choosing one of the starter themes like zen or genesis.
Changing the background color of a theme is only a 'trivial' task if you choose a simple theme. Garland was created to be a showcase theme, not 'trivial'. For trivial see blue marine.
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Still no hope of a simple black background. Drupal not viable?
There is a directory called modules, below that a color directory and a color.module file. In that file there is no mention of a "core optional fieldset".
Isn't the simple truth Drupal is not only far more complicated than writing your own website in php/html, and as a result no one is able to fully explain how to actualy change anything?
We need very short, but complete documentation on how to do things, with full pathnames, file names, and the actual text to edit, and if we can't have it, isn't Drupal just not viable?
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why are you trying to edit files for this? It's unnecessary.
Documentation for color module = http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/color
what in the above documentation is unclear?
There is no need to look at the file paths, open files and especially edit files.
color.module doesn't hold the information for what fieldset it appears in. color.info does.
if you don't want to use the color.module, hack style.css of the theme in use. Use firebug for firefox to inspect elements and adjust the css file as you desire.
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If you cannot read and follow directions, you're quite correct-- drupal, as well as other CMSs, is not viable for you. You may wish to checkout sitebuilder or some other 'one click' website builders instead.
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