| To change the logo from the Wordpress logo to | | | | |
| your logo | | | | To change the colour of the background (ie. |
| | | | the baby blue colour) |
| 1. Login to your site via FTP or your | | | | |
| preferred method and locate the file | | | | 1. Open the colors-fresh.css file which is |
| 'login.css' which is found in your wp-admin | | | | also found in your wp-admin/css/ folder. |
| css/ folder. Open this css file in your | | | | |
| favourite editor. | | | | 2. Locate the TWO #eaf3fa colour's in this |
| | | | file and replace them with any colour you |
| 2. In the login.css file look for the | | | | like. I would recommend a light washed out or |
| line:background: url(../images | | | | neutral colour. I chose my site colour which |
| logo-login.gif) no-repeat;and change it to | | | | is grey. (#EAEAEA) |
| your own image for example...background: | | | | |
| url(../images/YOURLOGO.gif) no-repeat; | | | | 3. Don't stop here, you can customise your |
| | | | log in screen as much as you like! Mine was |
| NB: You will probably want to make the logo | | | | just a quick example. |
| around 290 pixels wide. | | | | |
| | | | Just a note to remember to backup these two |
| 3. For the more advanced users this is where | | | | CSS files (colors-fresh and login.css) before |
| you can customise the look of the login | | | | you do any Wordpress updates as these updates |
| anyway you like using CSS which I know you | | | | will overwrite these files and you will have |
| will. I just changed the fonts to Helvetica | | | | to do it all over again! |
| to match my site. | | | | |