A few changes…

I made the footer transparent …

How did you do that, by editing the theme’s style.css file? All of the changes you want to make can be done with CSS, but you want to avoid modifying the theme’s CSS files directly because if the theme ever gets updated because of feature enhancements or security patches, then those modifications will be lost. Since RoundTable doesn’t seem to have a Custom CSS option, best to use a CSS plugin like Custom CSS Manager to override any existing CSS.

For example, if you add these two CSS rules, you should be able to adjust the footer height to whatever values you want:

#footer p:first-child {
   padding-top: 0;
}

#footer {
   height: auto;
   margin-top: 0px;
   padding-top: 30px;
   padding-bottom: 30px;
}

What these rules do is first resets all the properties that currently contribute to the footer size/spacing. Then the last two properties for #footer, padding-top and padding-bottom, will be the only two values you’ll need to adjust the amount of space before & after the footer text.

If you use a web debugging tool like Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools, you’ll be able to see what CSS rules you need to override for the other elements. Give me a bit of time & I can make a follow-up post with suggestions.

Another member gave me the coding to change the footer, There is another post I made about an hour ago that explains it…

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/footer-changes-1?replies=9

I’m downloading the plugin…

can you tell me what the best options are for what I already did… If I need to do it again differently… so they don’t get changed back with an update… Thanks so much…

Ok, I pasted just what you have above in the box on the plugin… That seems to be good… for bringing the footer down…

Yeah, I’m not sure what made her believe that you had created a child theme, all she had to do was look at your source code to see that you hadn’t.

Well, what’s done is done. You can install a child theme if you want, but I don’t know how deep your technical ability is. A child theme also prevents theme upgrades from erasing your changes. Or you can install the plugin (or another CSS plugin, which would be easier. Then you can copy the CSS change that was suggested in the previous post into the plugin’s Custom CSS field.

OK, nevermind what I wrote, you already installed the plugin, which is good (and you work fast!). Let me take a look at the other CSS that you’ll need for the other changes that you want.

Sure! thanks! ??

Should I copy what the other member wrote in the box on that plugin?

Just did, not sure how it works… ??

Umm… There’s a big gap at the bottom of my sites pages… (the footer) I’m not sure what made it do that… I posted the CSS you gave me above, and then posted what she wrote me after…

Ok, I changed the original CSS back, and left only the new coding in the box on the plugin… I am playing with the code you gave me, I only notice it changing the placement of the words. Is this what it is supposed to be doing?

My tech skills are not very savvy, but I am determined to build my site on my own and learn… ??

Put her CSS first before mine, then my CSS can override hers. By the way, this:

#footer p:first-child {
   padding-top: 1;
}

should be this:

#footer p:first-child {
   padding-top: 0;
}

?? ok much better.. Thanks!!! Yea I was playing with that and noticed that I must have done something there… That issue is solved…

Do you have any ideas about the text colors for the main body and titles?

Just to make them black…

Not sure what I should do about the navigation, so I will think about that one first… and tend to it at a later date…

I don’t want to keep too much of your time, you are probably busy answering a ton of these questions… ??