Making first website using CMS Made Simple Needing some help

[cruz]

Okay I am making a website for a church and I need to change the color scheme and remove that CMS logo from the top left corner.  Can anyone help me out? 

[Fraserm]

You're going to have to know your way around CSS and HTML to do it.

You'll have to edit whichever template file you're using and whatever stylesheets are attached to it. Click Layout | Templates and click the template you want to edit, that will open it for editing. Make your changes and click Apply. That lets you view your site and see the changes without closing the template.

To edit the CSS for a template, click Layout | Templates and come down to the row that has your template in it. Look over to the right and click the little blue CSS icon, that will show you the list of stylesheets attached to that template. Edit whichever one you need to.

I doubt that will help you much, but at least it's a reply. To be honest there are easier ways of doing what you're doing if you don't have any knowledge of HTML or CSS.

Edit: It would probably be better if I clarified that. If you know basic HTML and CSS, I would create the layout of the site without any content, just the way you normally would. Then add your template to CMSMS and modify it to contain your content blocks. That way the site looks how you want it to from the outset, without all this modification malarky.

If you don't know HTML and CSS then you could use FrontPage, Dreamweaver etc and then bring that into CMSMS later on.

[uniqu3]

To change colors and other page styles go to:
Layout --> Stylesheets --> Layout left sidebar (i think this is the stylesheet attached to the deafult template - not sure)

To change logo find in this stylesheet

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div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
   background: #385C72 url(uploads/images/logo1.gif) no-repeat 0 12px; 
   display: block;
   height: 80px;             /* adjust according your image size */
   text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
   text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

Play around with color codes in stylesheet thats the easiest way to learn it
Maybe you will fin these links useful:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... _Tutorials
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/How_to
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... d/Designer

[Dr.CSS]

If you would have read the default content you would have read the part about html and css and found a link to this very good reference http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp...