Colour of username, picture in entry footer, entry spacing and font

[el1ie]

Hi, Hope to get everything right today!  :)

Journal I'm working on - spn_batcave  using a "strata" layout and just adding a few CSS codes and the customise tabs for cosmetic changes.  Here's the link to the Recent Entries page so you can perhaps see the problem I'm trying to describe.

First, I'm having some problems getting the Entry Boxes  to look right.

Is there any way of setting the text colour for the username of the poster?  As you can see, it's in the dark red border.  I've managed to keep the text in the header  and the text for the links in the footer stay the light colour by setting then to the same value for active/hover/visited.  However, the username seems to be taking on the attributes of the links colours in the paler entry background and are pretty hard to see on the dark header colour. I'd like to make the poster username the same colour as the text in the header permanently if that's possible.

Also, just wondering if it's possible to place a very narrow border picture into the footer of the Entry Box? 

I'd also like to increase the gap between entries just a little.

The other problem I seem to be not able to fix is changing the font, I'm using the Wizard (?) pages in the Customise your Theme.  I click on the Fonts tab and try to set all the boxes to Arial, but it doesn't seem to be having any effect on the journal, any help on what I'm not doing right there would be very much appreciated.

Editing to add, scrap the font problem, I've always spelt the font as  Ariel, but under the font box is the suggestion - For example: Arial or "Times New Roman". Leave blank to use the default. - I presumed I had to spell it that way.  Putting it in the boxes as Ariel does work - sorry.

Thank you.

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

-- For the username, would you try using '.entry .poster a' as your selector? I see you've got it as #entry .poster in your code.

Footer bkg:

.entry .footer {
background: url(URL) no-repeat top center;
padding-top: 20px;
}

I think. Not sure the padding is needed. Depends on where you want your border to be.

-- Space between entries:

.entry {
margin-bottom: 2em;
}


N.B. Ariel and Arial are two different fonts. :)

[el1ie]

You are a star, all those work perfectly, I can't thank you enough, just fiddled a little with the padding for the border pic, thanks for adding that bit to the code. :))

*facepalm* about the font, looking at the suggestions, I thought, oh, that's what I need in all those boxes and just copy/pasted the word right down the page! Only dawned on me after I posted the problem that I'd chosen the wrong word! No wonder it wasn't looking right... *shakes head* I so admire you guys and your attention to detail.

Thanks again for the help.