Where to make basic color changes to template

[Redeye]

Just to pass on to other non-php people a little info that I have accrued through trial and error.
(I loaded the index.template.php into Textpad to get the line numbers, red highlight is code to change)

To change color of the header bar of the User Info panel:
Line 175: ................ ; background-color: #6B8EAE ; margin-right: ........

To change color of the background of the User Info panel:
Line 176: ........5px; background: #EFEFEF url (' .........................

To change color of the header bar of the News Box panel:
Line 269: ................. background color: #6B8EAE ; .........

To change color of the background of the News Box panel:
Line 270: ......................... ; background: #EFEFEF url(' ...............

To change color of the header of the Key Stats panel:
Line 276: .................background-color: #6B8EAE ; ..................

To change color of the background of the Key Stats panel:
Line 277: ............. background: #EFEFEF url(' ................

To change color of the background of the main content area:
Line 298: .......... background-color: #D0D0D0 ; ............

I'll add more as I find them.

[pulpitfire]

what's wrong with admin/themes/style.css?

[Redeye]

It seemed that everytime I changed something in the css it changed quite a number of things all over the place.

[pulpitfire]

what you could do, is replace all that style information in your index.template, with your own unique CSS classes, in style.css.  then, it would only change the style for that template.

[Springer]

Could you explain this a little more please.  DIfference in edit'n them.