Just checked and actually it is very easy to change the forum colours (you just have to specify the hex values for all the items) thus:
/* Normal, standard links. */
a:link
{
color: #000000;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited, a:hover
{
color: #323232;
text-decoration: underline;
}
/* Navigation links - for the link tree. */
.nav, .nav:link, .nav:visited
{
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.nav:hover
{
font-weight: bold;
color: #cc3333;
text-decoration: underline;
}
/* Tables should show empty cells. */
table
{
empty-cells: show;
}
/* By default (td, body..) use Tahoma in black. */
body, td, th
{
color: #000000;
font-size: small;
font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}
/* The main body of the entire forum. */
body
{
background-color: white;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
/* Input boxes - just a bit smaller than normal so they align well. */
input, textarea, button
{
font-size: 9pt;
color: #000000;
font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}
/* All input elements that are checkboxes or radio buttons. */
input.check
{
}
/* Selects are a bit smaller, because it makes them look even better 8). */
select
{
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: normal;
color: #000000;
font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}
/* Standard horizontal rule.. ([hr], etc.) */
hr, .hrcolor
{
height: 1px;
border: 0;
color: #666666;
background-color: #666666;
}
/* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
.quote
{
color: #000000;
background-color: #C3B8D0;
border: 1px solid #000000;
margin: 1px;
padding: 1px;
font-size: x-small;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
/* A code block - maybe even PHP ;). */
.code
{
color: #000000;
background-color: #cccccc;
font-family: "courier new", "times new roman", monospace;
font-size: x-small;
line-height: 1.3em;
/* Put a nice border around it. */
border: 1px solid #000000;
margin: 1px auto 1px auto;
padding: 1px;
width: 99%;
/* Don't wrap its contents, and show scrollbars. */
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: auto;
/* Stop after about 24 lines, and just show a scrollbar. */
max-height: 24em;
}
/* The "Quote:" and "Code:" header parts... */
.quoteheader, .codeheader
{
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: x-small;
line-height: 1.2em;
}
/* Generally, those [?] icons. This makes your cursor a help icon. */
.help
{
cursor: help;
}
/* /me uses this a lot. (emote, try typing /me in a post.) */
.meaction
{
color: red;
}
/* The main post box - this makes it as wide as possible. */
.editor
{
width: 96%;
}
/* Highlighted text - such as search results. */
.highlight
{
background-color: yellow;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
}
/* Alternating backgrounds for posts, and several other sections of the forum. */
.windowbg
{
color: #000000;
background-color: #E1E1E1;
}
.windowbg2
{
color: #000000;
background-color: #F0F0F0;
}
/* These are used primarily for titles, but also for headers (the row that says what everything in the table is.) */
.titlebg, tr.titlebg th, tr.titlebg td, .titlebg a:link, .titlebg a:visited, .titlebg2, tr.titlebg2 th, tr.titlebg2 td, .titlebg2 a:link, .titlebg2 a:visited
{
color: white;
font-style: normal;
background-color: #6B8EAE;
}
.titlebg a:hover, .titlebg2 a:hover
{
color: #dfdfdf;
}
/* This is used for categories, page indexes, and several other areas in the forum. */
.catbg, .catbg3
{
background-image: url(images/catbg.jpg);
}
/* This is used for a category that has new posts in it... to make it light up. */
.catbg2
{
background-image: url(images/catbg2.jpg);
}
.catbg, .catbg2, .catbg3
{
font-weight: bold;
background-color: silver;
color: #000000;
}
/* This is used for tables that have a grid/border background color (such as the topic listing.) */
.bordercolor
{
background-color: #828181;
}
/* This is used on tables that should just have a border around them. */
.tborder
{
border: 1px solid #828181;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
padding: 2px;
}
/* Default font sizes: small (8pt), normal (10pt), and large (14pt). */
.smalltext
{
font-size: x-small;
font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}
.normaltext
{
font-size: small;
}
.largetext
{
font-size: large;
}
/* This is the white header area where the title, menu bars, and header boxes are. */
#headerarea
{
background-color: white;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
}
/* This is the main area of the forum, the part that's gray. */
#bodyarea
{
background-color: #D4D4D4;
}
/* And this is the bottom, where the copyright is, etc. */
#footerarea
{
color: black;
background-color: white;
border-top: 1px solid gray;
}
/* This is for the special header boxes on the top (user info, key stats, news box.) */
.headertitles
{
background-color: #6B8EAE;
border: 1px solid #6B8EAE;
height: 12px;
}
.headerbodies
{
border: 1px solid #7A7777;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: bottom;
}
/* Posts and personal messages displayed throughout the forum. */
.post, .personalmessage
{
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
line-height: 1.3em;
}
/* All the signatures used in the forum. If your forum users use Mozilla, Opera, or Safari, you might add max-height here ;). */
.signature
{
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 3px;
line-height: 1.3em;
}
/* No image should have a border when linked */
a img{
border: 0;
}
By the way these aren't the settings for this forum - I can't acces sthat page, but they are from my own SMF forum (which isn't live yet - I'm too lazy/busy to get my website sorted out at the moment.
