I have text links and i want to change the colour of them when they are hovered over and when they are active. How could I do this and where could I do this in CMS?

You contorl it in your Stylesheet and need to know CSS.

Maybe this can help you:

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... _Tutorials
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... nel/Layout
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link.asp

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Thanks for them links, they wer useful but my links wont change colour. I was searching through my stylesheet to see if I could find the colour that the links wer appearing in. its a purple colour - #800080

i have my links in a global content block, would that be a reason why i cant change them?

here is my style sheet...


* {
margin:0;
padding:0;



}
body



{

background-image: url(uploads/images/bg.png);background-repeat:repeat-x;
  color: #333;
  margin:0px;    /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
background-color: #fff;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;



}


#master {

margin-left:auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom:10px;




width:900px;
background-color:#fff;
height:auto;

overflow: hidden;
overflow:auto;
}


#header {
 
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;

  width: 900px;
  height: 155px;



  background-image: url(http://server7336.dedicated.webfusion.c ... header.png);no-repeat;

}


#nav {
  float:left;
  margin-top:117px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 400px;
  height: 10px;


}

#logo {
  float:right;
margin-right:90px;
  width: 159px;
  height: 201px;
margin-top:15px;




}
#topsection {

  width: 900px;
  height:220px;
  background:#fff;

margin-bottom:10px;


}


#content{

  float:left;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 540px;
  height:auto;
background-color:#fff;
border-right: 1px solid grey;


}


#rotator{

  float:left;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 500px;
  height:200px;
background-color:#000;





}

#contactdetails{
  float:right;
  margin-top:10px;
margin-right:10px;
  width: 300px;
  height: auto;

  background-color:#fff;

}

#midsection{


  width: 900px;
  height:220px;
  background:#fff;
margin-top:10px;

border-top: 1px solid grey;


}
#news1{

    float:left;
  margin-top:20px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 283px;
  height:200px;
  background-image: url(http://server7336.dedicated.webfusion.c ... news1a.jpg);no-repeat;

-moz-border-radius:3px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ccc;


}

#news2{

    float:left;
  margin-top:20px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 283px;
  height:200px;
  background-image: url(http://server7336.dedicated.webfusion.c ... news1a.jpg);no-repeat;

-moz-border-radius:3px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ccc;

}

#news3{

    float:left;
  margin-top:20px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 283px;
  height:200px;

  background-image: url(http://server7336.dedicated.webfusion.c ... news1a.jpg);no-repeat;

-moz-border-radius:3px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ccc;


}


#footer {

width:900px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right: auto; 
margin-top:10px;
height:210px;


}

#footerholder {

width:100%;
margin-top:10px;
height:320px;
background:#1c232d;

}

#link1{

    float:left;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 283px;
  height:190px;

padding-left:10px;
padding-top:10px;

}

#link2{

    float:left;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 15px;
  width: 283px;
  height:190px;

padding-top:10px;

}

#link3{

    float:left;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: 15px;
  width: 283px;
  height:190px;




}

You should style links like this:

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Cheers 'uniqu3' your a life saver, it worked perfectly 

i'll look out for any of your posts and help you if i can in the future.