Patrick Malley

Someone else may know of a way to do this, but, to the best of my knowledge, there is no native function that will perform this action.

I would recommend making these changes in your theme CSS.

.block_recent_news .content {
background: gray;
}

.block_online_users .content {
background:green;
}

And, of course, if you did not like those default color values, you could always replace them with hexidecimal values.

You're on your own for the poll block - must be a 3rd party plugin. Perhaps:

.block_poll .content {
background: blue;
}

Perhaps someone can confirm.

I got around to updating Serenity for 1.9 this week. In fact, I complete overhauled the entire theme. It's still a three-column fluid-width theme that loads on top of the Standard theme. It's very light-weight, and should work on installations as far back as 1.6.

The biggest changes were made to the CSS and background images. Unfortunately, the changes were too many for me to keep track of, so if you upgrade from a previous version of Serenity, be sure to save a copy of the original for any modifications you may have made.

And, of course, the theme can be found in the theme database.

Enjoy.

What you're probably going to want to do is eliminate the sideblock background, and add a background, instead, to the entire left and right columns.

For example:

.sideblock .content,
.sideblock .header {
background:none;
}

#left-column,
#right-column {
background:#ff0;
}

Not that you would want a background that color, but this should give you the idea.

Thank you, Jeff. Compliments from guys like you and Julian mean a lot.