Changing Font Colour in Artemis Red

[Welshy]

Hi,

I'm not a great programmer or coder, but I do have enough knowledge of php and html to stumble my way through most situations. I am however stumped on how to change the font colour on the Artemis Red template. The colour that I wish to change is the main blue font, as I don't think this fits in with the rest of the colour scheme. I'm going to switch it out either for black or a red... I want to play around a bit and see what looks good. Can anyone tell me where I can find the colour of this text being denoted? Thanks.

[CyberAlien]

There isn't any blue font in Artemis Red style. What's your forum url?

[Welshy]

http://mythicalrealmrpg.net/phpBB2/index.php

I uploaded all the files to the templates directory, then used the AdminCP Styles Menu, Add, Install. Did I miss anything out?

[Reiji Kurosaky]

Hello,

I don't see any blue fonts, can you post a picture or something?

[Welshy]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Ashrat/Miscellaneous/Screenshot.jpg

I'm on the laptop now and I don't have Irfan installed on it, so I had to make the screenshot by Print Screen, and then copying into MS Paint. As such, the picture quality's not great, but I think you can still see it well enough to see what I'm talking about.

[CyberAlien]

Looks like your browser is messed up. To override browser settings open style_main.css, find this:body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #7C7C7C;
}and replace with this:body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #7C7C7C;
color: #000;
}

[Welshy]

*Sigh* This is probably connected to the problem I'm trying to get fixed with this PC's browsers, where it displays all bold text as italicised too. Very annoying. It doesn't do that with the laptop though, so it's weird that both machines share this same problem. I'll have to ask my girlfriend what she's been doing to them. lol

Anyway, thanks so much for the help guys. I applied that line of code and the font's now displaying black, instead of blue. While I'm here, can I just check that this is what the Counter-Strike Expanded template is supposed to look like?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Ashrat/Miscellaneous/Clipboard01.jpg

[CyberAlien]

Almost. Colors are correct, but there isn't any italic text in style. See attachment.
Install a normal browser instead of IE, and problem should be fixed: Opera (http://www.opera.com) or Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org).

[Mighty Gorgon]

*Sigh* This is probably connected to the problem I'm trying to get fixed with this PC's browsers, where it displays all bold text as italicised too. Very annoying. It doesn't do that with the laptop though, so it's weird that both machines share this same problem. I'll have to ask my girlfriend what she's been doing to them. lol
This could be also related to your default font in browser settings.

Try to have a look at your browser options for default fonts/styles... or try to use another browser on the same PC as a verification.

[Welshy]

I installed Firefox and choose not to import settings, history, favourites, etc. from IE, but it still had the same problem, except it's worse, because Firefox makes the Italics look grainier.

Firefox Screenshot (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Ashrat/Miscellaneous/Screenshot-Firefox.jpg)

I've also tried it with AOL Browser in the past with similar results.

[CyberAlien]

Do you have any firewall software installed? It might be caching html pages and messing them up.

[Welshy]

Yes. The firewall running is a part of the AOL Safety & Security Centre.

[Welshy]

I just tested it briefly with the Firewall down, and bold still displays italicised.

[CyberAlien]

Last thing I can think of: disable proxy if you have it set in your browser settings.

[Welshy]

Sorry, but I'm not too familiar with some parts of Windows, and I can't find any settings related to Proxies. Which tab is it under? Also, I found that in the Accessibility options there are some radio boxes to ignore website-specificed font styles and font colours, but these aren't checked.

[CyberAlien]

It should be in browser settings, not in control panel.

[Welshy]

Okay, it's fixed. :) I was missing the Verdana Bold font from my font list, so apparently my PC was substituting the Verdana Bold + Italics font in its place. Man, everything looks so much nicer now. Thanks for all your help with this CyberAlien, both with helping me troubleshoot this Bold + Italics thing as well as the colours on Artemis Red displaying strangely for me. I'm working now on installing Artemis and CounterStrike skins on my site, as well as the eXtreme Styles mod. All great works. Thanks and kudos.