Try background-color: white;, PC. Scola's is better if you want to lose breadcrumbs entirely, not just the background.

Or

background-color: #whateveryourbackgroundcoloris

t /wishes for display:none for this week

Actually, background-color:none should work just fine.

I've decided that the breadcrumbs on the left are distracting and have moved them back to just above the other navigation elements. In case anyone was still following along.

You might need to refresh a few times for it to take.

True! It looks fine now.

Couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to get rid of the white box background behind the Message Center logo?

2) Is there a way to change the color of the red bar that highlights "Discussion Threads", "Site Admin", etc?

I've been perusing the CSS that was posted ages ago, so we could make our own changes and while I've been able to figure out a few of them (hello a:hover!), there's still some that I'm not able to parse out. I've picked up an instruction book for CSS, but it's slow going. Help?

1) Is there a way to get rid of the white box background behind the Message Center logo?

The background on the image is white, not transparent, so it would have to be replaced with a whole new image -- I remember but am too lazy to Nilly right now that it didn't look right when either Jon or ita tried a transparent version?

Anyway, +1 to the request.

2) Is there a way to change the color of the red bar that highlights "Discussion Threads", "Site Admin", etc?

If I'm reading it right, that's under .section-header. So you'd do

.section-header {background-color:#123456;}

with the color code of your choice. (Do you need a reference for colors? Or is that covered in your book?)

The background on the image is white, not transparent, so it would have to be replaced with a whole new image

That's what I thought I remembered, but I was hoping I could change it. I've got a pale purple background and it just kind of jumps off the page at me in a not so happy way.

Do you need a reference for colors?

Nah, I look at the Paint rbg and convert to the hex. Why, I'm not sure, but that's what I end up doing. (I think it's for the mental excersize, the bane of unemployment.) I just couldn't break out what element was controlling it. There's so many header-this and header-that, it's very confusing!

If we made the image transparent, it would still look like crap with a purple background. A different sort of crap, but crap nonetheless.

You can look at the transparent title graphics on b.net. I think they look worse than the opaque ones on a wider range of backgrounds.

#subtext img { border:2px solid black } will give it a black border which might make it look less weird.