A question about editable regions

Question

Thanks for helping out self-taught, little experienced, non-coder....
I am building a new site and would like to use templates and nested templates (I know how to do that). The page I would make my template from can be found here - www.sttimothysanglican.org/Home.html. My question is this, how can I set up 2 nested templates with different content colors? In other words on some pages I would like the white area to be black and in all cases this is the area that needs to be editable.
Thanks again for your advice.

Answer 1

Hi
Style and content are seperate issues.
Style: My approach would be to give <div class="content"> a "Make Attribute Editable..." in the Modify > Templates menu.
Now becuase there is already a class... perhaps give it an id and put in a default value (once in there you'll see what I mean by 'value'. Otherwise your code won't validate with a blank id attribute on the tag. I'd make the default value the 'most often' choice of background colour.
Then in your css file assign the colour. Now you will have to manually asign the 'less often' colour to the pages you want to do this to - with the page open choose Modify Template Properties and you'll find the id listed. You can style all sorts of aspects then using #black h2, #black h3 (colour:white;} for reversed out headings on the black areas.
Content: ... is that not the usual editable area within a nested template? I may be misunderstanding what you want to achieve.
Hope this has helped... I've ripped through this explanation somewhat but if you're as comfy with it all as I think you'll figure it. All the best.