New to genesis and very confused
 

Hello everyone :)

I have just installed genesis and the platinum theme.

I went to the options for genesis but I am surprised at how few options there are to change the site or am I looking in the wrong place?

I want to be able to alter the width of the content area and also change menu colours, add a background to the site. Where on earth do I find these settings?

Thanks so much in advance,

Craigh

All of that is set in the style sheet, style.css.

Ah I don't know how to edit style sheets etc. I was under the impression that it would be as easy as having a button to choose an image file and it updates the background for me?

No, the only theme that has style settings is Prose. Most of the newer themes include the custom background function where you can upload a background image for the body through the Dashboard but Platinum does not. You could add the custom background function by placing this in functions.php

I just purchased genesis and lifestyle theme. I am also under the same impression that it is easy to use but alas, I must know some "programming code" to get the whole thing going and to make things worse, there's no tutorials for it...

I gave a link to the theme tutorials in your other post. :)