Some General Questions

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Hi !

First off I'm pretty fluent in html & css but this is like my first time ever using a third party program to make a website, I usually just hand code.

Questions :


1: I'm trying to change the color of the text on the forum that says "Last Post" and I cannot figure out how.

2: How do I change and add different pages on the nav bar? Currently there are "Home" "Forum" "Blogs" and "What's New?",

3: I deleted all of the premade cms stuff on the left side ( I believe those were the sections and categories) that had all of the random things I didn't want on the website. Now I'm trying to bring some sort of "Box" like the "Recent Blog Posts" and "Recent Forum Posts" and put it on the left side. I want to put some a title and some text in it, and it would also be great if I could have other moderators change what is inside of it. What would be the best way to go about doing this?

4. I'm having a lot of trouble actually adding new things, all I can find the the admin panel is changing css and making widgets/grids, but how do you actually implement them without seeing the raw code?

5: How would I make my image on the top left http://mechanicalgamer.com/index/content.php not have that wrong colored gray in the back? I used the dropper thing in Photoshop to get the color, but its still different. I think its because the default is a gradient. Is there anyway to make just the background of my image opaque, but keep the text there?



Thanks a lot ! :-)