Create the right color theme for your store

[Collines]

The stock osCommerce color theme serves it's purpose, but if you want you store to look a bit different, then you need to create a color theme that enhances your store.

 

There are many ways to choose a theme and many variations like complimentary, monochromatic, tertiary, clashing, neutral blah blah blah blah.

 

There are also many sites that can help you get started. One that I find particularly interesting which is easy to understand, without too much of the blah blah blah is kuler.adobe.com

 

You can explore themes that have already been created or create your own and at the click of a button get the RGB, CMYK or hex values ready to pop into your style sheet.

 

I hope this information will help someone.

[ehendley]

My site (actually the wife's) is at dreamdolldesigns.com.

 

It was setup by dropshipwholesalers.com but their email tech support has been wanting.

 

One of many questions we have is where to change the backgound color that surrounds our content from grey to either another color or a background image preferably.

 

Notice top, left, right and bottom of our site is grey. I believe this should be done within osCommerce (and not my hosting site) since the top, right menu starting with shipping & terms is on the grey.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

thanks,

ed

[germ]

In the stylesheet here:

 

body{
 background-color: #727272;
}

 

Sometimes after changing the stylesheet in order to see any change you have to hold the <Ctrl> key down while doing a page refresh in the browser to force the browser to reload all contents from the server, including the newly changed stylesheet.

 

This works with IE and Firefox.

[ehendley]

Thanks for the quick reply, however, this particular area is before the body code ... it is in the header where the top right menu is shown from dreamdolldesigns.com.

 

The area I want to change is at the top right of page under shipping through customer login menu is at (and of course all around the body).

 

Thanks,

ed

[germ]

/includes/header.php

 

<tr><td bgcolor="#000000"><a class="ml" href="http://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/shipping_conditions.php">Shipping & Terms</a>  <font color="#ffffff">|</font>  <a class="ml" href="http://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact_us.php">Contact Us</a>  <font color="#ffffff">|</font> 

<a class="ml" href="http://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/create_account.php">Create an account</a>  <font color="#ffffff">|</font>  <a class="ml" href="http://YOUR_DOMAIN/login.php">Customer Login</a> </td></tr>

Add the code in RED, change the color to whatever you want.

 

It is unclear to me what other part of the page you want to change.

 

Better backup the file before you modify it.

 

You break it - You bought it.

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