I see that you've switched to the Liquorice theme. To change the background color for the main content column in the Liquorice theme, add this to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS editor:

#primary-content {
	background: #fff;
	padding: 1em;
	border-radius: 6px;
	margin-top: 60px;
}

So you would enter the number five "5" post in that little box.

Thanks much for your help.

I am really excited about WPMU and have enjoyed working with it. Being said, I have been wanting to make some changes (or i guess add-ons) to the source. Here is what i am looking to do. This may be easier for others, but i am new to WPMU :)

1. Instead of blogname.mydomain.com i was hoping for something like userID=343434 or users/group/name. Could anyone give me some advice on this.

2. Have restricted areas depending on the sign up. I am wanting to create a high school sports website for my state. So, for example, i would like one high school to be highshool1.mydomain.com and have all the users from that school in there. They would choose their high school upon registering. It may seem a little facebookish but its more about sports discussion through a blog and not about networking.

Thanks for any advice in modifying the code.

Here is another question, but an entirely different topic. Since you have likely addressed this, and do in your disclaimer, I thought you might be able to help me with an answer to it too.

There will be times that I want to post an article from another writer that I found somehow. It would be relevent, attributed to the writer, and unaltered. My question is: what type of permission do I need? The WordPress support people error on the safe side, saying you always need permission. This may not be possible, as many writers wouldn't take the time to respond to an email. Is there a place on the Internet that spells out what is allowed without direct permission? Your help will be appreciated again.

Kurt

Are all the articles in your side-bar linked? There are many of them. Is this what is meant by linking?

As is very obvious I am sure, my time with WordPress is very short. I hope to learn and implement many features in the future, but now I am still wondering what is possible and what blogs really are.

I appreciate your comments.

Kurt

Avoiding CSS changes can only be a good thing. Your disclaimer is great.

One: Provide a section that would allow other writers to be credited for writing postings. As things are now, you automatically credit the name of the blog with each contribution, ie: "November 26th, 2006 by politisense" for my http://www.considercommonsense.com blog. If an article was written by and I was given permission by another, I would want it to read "November 26th, 2006 by John Doe".

Two: Provide a small area, maybe enough room for a small paragraph, under the Tagline that could be edited to contain a small description of or disclaimer for the site in question. I have tried adding several sentences of text to the "Tagline" but it obviously wasn't designed for this, as it looks really bad and is truncated at both ends. Maybe there is a template that allows for this, but I haven't found it yet. My Weblog title is "Back to Common Sense" and its Tagline is "and Thinking for Yourself". I would want a small description of the site under the Tagline, saying something like: "Over the last several years people have strayed away from independent thinking and have embraced what the Main Stream Media prints. This is evident in our schools, workforce, politics, religion, and about everywhere that there are people. The objective of this site is to help return independent, critical thought, and in doing so this site will take a logical, common sense view of several subjects that will be supported by data or facts, encouraging the reader to investigate further and to form their own opinion."

Could you please consider these two requests for your blog service? I believe they would be appreciated by many of your members.