Is this a good place to seek help?

[JTShadow]

I've recently started using serendipity for a blog my friends and I are working on and we're having some difficulty. We're attempting to modify a theme, but can't figure out how to change the font color for the main text, and also our category system doesn't seem to be filtering anything, if you click on any category, everything gets listed no matter what. I'm hoping I can find some help here, or at least be pointing in the right direction. Thank you very much. If you want to take a look at the site to see what im talking about, its at http://www.noremorsegaming.com

[Don Chambers]

Yes, this is a pretty good place to seek help!

You should be able to modify your fonts in the file /templates/bex01/style.css. You might want to consider making a backup of that file prior to modification.

There is a configuration option for URL rewriting - can you enable that? Try Apache mod rewrite. I doubt that has anything to do with your category issue, but its a good idea to enable it if you can. Not sure what the problem is just yet, but I cannot help but wonder if it is how you configured the category permalinks... hmmm...

[JTShadow]

Wow, thanks Don, switching it to Apache mod rewrite solved the issue right away.

I've been toying around with the style.css but have yet to find the right option yet, but I'll keep looking for it, its just good to know I'm looking in the right place. I really appreciate the help, none of us really know what we're doing but we're learning as we go. Thanks.

[Don Chambers]

What font do you want to change?

[JTShadow]

Sorry for the late reply, I'm working on changing the font color of the main text for each post, currently its black, so we've been changing it to white manually with each article. Also when you look at an article, at the bottom of the post all the text for writing a comment is in black, as well as some of the other text about displaying comments and wether there are comments or not. We're trying to eliminte all the black text from the dark grey background and change it to something more readable, probably white.

[Don Chambers]

It is difficult to troubleshoot when you are setting each entry's color manually.

The grey text (color:#31314B) for "Posted by blah blah...." can be found in style.css:

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.serendipity_entryFooter  {
border-top:1px solid #DEDEDE;
clear:both;
color:#31314B;
font-size:0.9em;
margin-bottom:70px;
margin-top:10px;
padding:3px 0 0;
text-align:center;
}

As for all text, you can start by setting all text to white in the body portion of style.css by adding

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color: #ffffff;