I tried everythign under the sun to get the bg colour to change but no go.
Edited this in the template file.
HTML Code:
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<!-- guest welcome message -->
<br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="1" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#003399" class="alt1" >
<phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]" 3="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
<else />
As you can see I have added td bgcolor="#003399" to the code but it simply doesn't work.
If I paste this into Dreamweaver though it certainly colours the table when adding this code.
Can't think of anything else to do?