Meteor Slides – change Nav Bar background color?

Hi, you can style the slideshows however you want using CSS. Like you could make the slideshow background black, and add some space below the slides by adding this CSS to your theme’s stylesheet:

div.meteor-slides {
	padding: 0 0 40px 0;
	background: #000;
}

Then position the paged navigation inside the space below the slides like this:

.meteor-slides .meteor-buttons {
	bottom: 20px;
	left: 20px;
	width: 96%;
}

That should give you something close to what you described.

I wouldn’t recommend using tables for web design any more, most WordPress themes will style tables for displaying content in a table, so you would have to remove or override those styles to use tables for layout.

If you’re not already using a web inspector like Firebug or Chrome Web Inspector to examine the code behind sites and tweak their CSS, definitely check them out!