Sidebar color

Your background is not black.
https://www.tothisend.com/wp-content/themes/to-this-end/images/kubrickbg.jpg

Well, in a “normal” theme, you’d put background-color: black; or background-color:#000000; in the #sidebar css.

Since you’re screwing around with the iffyness exemplified by the “default”, you might have to find which image is the sidebar background, and use a graphics program to make it black.

see what I mean though…
I changed the colum images in the default them to black on the left side and white on the right… to account for my sidebar on the left.
but their is some gray or white color associated with the side bar and I don’t know where that is…

And I appologized for only being able to hack away at the default theme but… i guess you gotta start somewhere

That’s because those colors are not controlled by the CSS. They are controlled by the JPEGs in the theme’s image folder. If you have Photoshop, download Kubrick (now known as the “Default Theme”) v1.2.6. The download for v1.2.6 comes with a fully-customizable Photoshop template that allows you to easily customize the JPEG-controled colors. Do not use the downloaded Kubrick template with WordPress v1.5. The images, however, are safe to use and fully compatible with the Default Theme.

https://binarybonsai.com/kubrick

I have changed all the files in the Images folder…

Don’t apologize, ’tis true that you have to begin somewhere. But I can’t really help you any further, I really wouldn’t touch that “theme” with a ten foot pole, so I honestly don’t know what to tell you.

You might search the codex: http//codex.www.ads-software.com – try a search for “kubrick theme” or “tweaking kubrick” or something. Or maybe look through the theme repositories for something more like what you have in mind in the long run….

Ha ha I think I found it… one i didn’t change all the way.
hopefully that will fix it.
thanks everyone!

is their a tutorial or something for learning to write themes?

Best of luck with it….

Tutorials:

https://www.transycan.net/abc/visual_anat.html
https://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/

And search the codex (link a couple of posts earlier) for theme stuff.

again much thanks!

Start here (I mean all the pages linked from there ??
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Blog_Design_and_Layout

More specifically: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development

and download and study as many themes as possible (not the default ??

If you tinker with kubrick or a derivative template then in the header.php, you either change the images to your taste or just comment out the respective statement and go ahead with regular css formatting. Like:

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body { background: url("<?php // bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>kubrickbg.jpg"); }