What do I edit for basic text color changes?

[r1formetoo]

My site is www.redlinestands.com and I've decided to make all of my "categories" links on the left in black, plus the sub-category links too. I figured out how to change the "information" links to black but not what's above it. Any idea how I do this? I'd also like to change the "Home Log In" hover colors to white. They hover to red right now and it just looks too serious with red text on a black background. I've been fooling around with it all morning to no avail on these two things. Please help and thanks in advance.

Ian

[gjh42]

You can use a developer tool like Firebug for Firefox, or whatever is available in your browser of choice (even IE has some sort of developer tool now) to inspect the element you are interested in and see what stylesheet rules control it, and/or what CSS class/id applies to it, and edit that. In Firebug you can edit and add styling and see the results instantly, so you know exactly how to edit your actual stylesheet. You've been at this long enough that you need to learn to do basic things like this for yourself.

[r1formetoo]

I agree Glenn. The problem is that this company is no longer just 1 guy doing a couple grand a month in business. It's extremely rare that I don't spend the entire day on the phone with customers or other business associates. I really need someone I can hire to take care of this stuff. Are you interested? At some point Sam Walton had to hand over day to day operations to more talented individuals to handle these task and that's somewhat like what is happening here, though admittedly on a smaller scale.

[gjh42]

Hover colors are trickier because they are harder to "inspect" directly. For the top links, add this:

#navMain ul li a:hover
{ color:#ddddff; /* changed 20131001 */
  }

[gjh42]

Yes, being too busy running a successful business to handle website details is a legitimate (and good) problem to have:)

[gjh42]

To change the categories links from your site's default red link color, find this rule in stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css and add the "color: #000000;" line:

#chcategories ul a {/*top categories*/
    display: block;
    background: #ffffff;
    border: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 0.4em;
    color: #000000;
    }