No need to switch to dev mode when switching themes.
Another way you can experiment, without going into dev mode, you can click on admin, edit themes, and then click the CSS tab. You will then be at a page with two boxes. The top box is the code for base.css for your theme. It is not editable.
But you can copy from the top box.
I'm not saying copy the whole thing.
I'm saying. You could copy little bits of it. Like:
.ow_boxcaps
Background-color #90210 (URLisNameMy=bg.obvious) atMyRoot/duh/images/totalDuh
padding 0px 0px 0px 0x
You could then paste that (what you copied from the top box) into the bottom box.
Switch the padding to -109px or something
and watch stuff start flying all over your site.
Usually, I use this method to test out background colors, just to get and idea of where I'm at, in the GIANT, EXTRA-SUPER-DOUBLE-TRIPLE-NINE-FOOT-TALL css file :)
And I keep my site open in two tabs when doing this. Or even two browsers. That way, I can make these changes in the admin area, leaving it loaded. And just refresh my other browser or tab, to see my changes.
Capish?
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The Bobbyinator
AKA Bobby the Kid of the Oxwall Regulators (a small group of oxwall users who have decided to take justice into their own hands).