Thanks, jade. I'll give !important a go. Always wondered what that was for and when to use it.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I use "print screen", paste into a Photoshop doc, and select the color. Only on text will the color change slightly from pixel to pixel and not match something in CSS. At least in my experience. Even then to get uniform text coloring, I can turn off Clear Text (or anti-aliasing whatever the Windows setting is called that causes text "to smooth").

And, yeah, I've Googled for tutorials but so far I've only read those that are written for others with the same skill set as the author. Not exactly helpful when my CSS skills can only be described as rudimentary.