New to genesis and very confused

[Craigh1983]

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

[SoZo]

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

[Craigh1983]

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?

[SoZo]

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

PHP Code:

/** Add support for custom background */
add_custom_background(); 


[Khim]

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...

[andrea_r]

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