It's useful to check out : Wikipedia:WP:CSS See also: User:Curtbeckmann/monobook.css, which is supposed to be tracking the colors below

DON'T FORGET TO CLEAR YOUR CACHE WHEN EXPERIMENTING

Links for checking background colors:

(ns-0:white)Welcome to Appropedia
(ns-1:FFF4EE)Talk:Welcome to Appropedia
(ns-2:E0FFFF)User:Curtbeckmann
(ns-3:FFF4EE)User talk:Curtbeckmann
(ns-4:EEEEFF)Appropedia:Community portal
(ns-5:FFF4EE)Appropedia talk:Village pump
(ns-6:F8DDF8)Image:Curtbeckmann headshot.jpg
(ns-7:FFF4EE)Image talk:Curtbeckmann headshot.jpg
(ns-8:EEEEFF)MediaWiki:Sidebar
(ns-9:FFF4EE)MediaWiki talk:Sidebar
(ns-10:EEEEFF)Template:Discussion tracker
(ns-11:FFF4EE)Template talk:Discussion tracker
(ns-12:EEEEFF)Help:Contents
(ns-13:FFF4EE)Help talk:Contents
(ns-14:EEEEFF)Category:Porting
(ns-15:FFF4EE)Category talk:Porting
(ns-100:F4FFF4)Portal:Green living
(ns-101:FFF4EE)Portal talk:Green living
(ns-102:E8FFE8)Original:Curt test
(ns-103:FFF4EE)Original talk:Curt test
Included below, between "nowiki" wrappers, is a moderate reference of some skin code for namespace coloring. This was found (somewhat randomly by Google) at http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ABrdoruesi:Dan/NavHead

/* Notice to Administrators! Any changes to Monobook.css or Common.css should be first proposed to en:Wikipedia:Village Pump. Furthermore, changes should be made in m:MediaWiki:Common.css rather than this page, unless there is no effect in m:MediaWiki:Common.css. Testing can be done on your own user Monobook.css. Thank you. */

/*

*/

/* Donations link to be uncommented during fundraising drives  */
#siteNotice {
    margin-top:5px;
    padding-left: 4px;
    font-style: italic;
    text-align: center;
}

/#fundraising {
/ text-align: center;
/ border: 1px solid gray;
/ padding: 5px;
/}

/****************************/
/* BEGIN LIGHT BLUE SECTION */
/****************************/
/* Make all non-namespace pages have a light blue content area. This is done by
   setting the background color for all #content areas to light blue and then
   overriding it for any #content enclosed in a .ns-0 (main namespace). I then
   do the same for the "tab" background colors. --Lupo */

#content {
    background: #F8FCFF; /* a light blue */
}

#content div.thumb {
    border-color: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #content {
    background: white;
}

#mytabs li {
    background: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #mytabs li {
    background: white;
}

#mytabs li a {
    background-color: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #mytabs li a {
    background-color: white;
}

#p-cactions li a, #p-cactions li a:hover, #p-cactions li.selected a {
    background-color: #F8FCFF;
}

.ns-0 * #p-cactions li a {
    background-color: #fbfbfb;
}

.ns-0 * #p-cactions li.selected a, .ns-0 * #p-cactions li a:hover {
    background-color: white;
}

.ns-0 * #content div.thumb {
    border-color: white;
}

/**************************/
/* END LIGHT BLUE SECTION */
/**************************/

/* Display "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" */
#siteSub {
    display: inline;
    font-size: 92%;
    font-weight: normal;
}

#bodyContent #siteSub a {
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color: transparent;
    background-image: none;
    padding-right: 0;
}

/* Bold 'edit this page' link to encourage newcomers */
#ca-edit a { font-weight: bold !important; }

/* Display "User $1, you are already logged in!"
   ([[MediaWiki:Alreadyloggedin]]) in red and bold */
div.alreadyloggedin { color: red; font-weight: bold; }

@media print {
    /* Do not print edit link in templates using Template:Ed
       Do not print certain classes that shouldn't appear on paper */
    .editlink, .noprint, .metadata, .dablink { display: none }
    #content { background: #FFFFFF; } /* white background on print */
}


/* Accessibility experiment: make diff changes not just colour-based */ 

.diffchange {
    font-weight: bold;
    background-color: inherit;
}

td.diff-addedline, td.diff-deletedline, td.diff-context {
    font-size: 85%;
    color: inherit;
}

#pt-login {
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 110%;
}

form#userlogin {
  float: left;
  padding: 1em 1em .7em 1em;
  background-color: #ffffe6;
  border: 2px solid #fc6;
  color: #000;
  margin-right: 2em;
}

form#userlogin table {
  float: left;
  background-color: #ffffe6;
  color: #000;
}

p.error {
  font-weight: bold;
}

/* Class styles */

/* .toccolours added here because version in 
   monobook/main.css wasn't being used by the print style */
.toccolours { 
   border:1px solid #aaaaaa;
   background-color:#f9f9f9;
   padding:5px;
   font-size: 95%;
}

/* Remove padding from external links displayed without icon */
#bodyContent .plainlinks a {padding: 0 !important}


#p-nav h5 {
   display: none;
}

.portlet a {
   text-decoration: none;
}

.portlet a:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
}

#p-nav .pBody {
   padding-right: 0;
}

#p-nav a {
   display: block;
   width: 100%;
}

/* Special characters list below edit window works better without underlining */
#editpage-specialchars a { text-decoration: none; }
#editpage-specialchars a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }

/* If you don't want to see special characters list at all,
   put the following line in your User:You/monobook.css file
  (and remove the slash-asterisk comments) */
/* #editpage-specialchars { display: none; } */

/* Makes the background of a framed image white instead of gray. */
/* Only visible with transparent images. */
/* See #Framed_image_background_color */
div.thumb div a img {
    background-color:#ffffff;
}

/* To position the spoken article link at the top of page 
Commented out while sitenotice present */

#spoken {
  position: absolute;
  float: right;
  text-align: right;
  font-size: 90%;
  right: 0;
  z-index: 1;
  background: none;
  border-bottom-style: none;
  top: -2.2em;
  display: block !important;
}

/* try adding here, this had no effect in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] */
.plainlinksneverexpand a.external.text:after {
 display: none !important
}

/* Standard Navigationsleisten, aka box hiding thingy from .de.*/

div.Boxmerge,
div.NavFrame {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 2px;
        border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
        text-align: center;
        border-collapse: collapse;
        font-size: 95%;
}
div.Boxmerge div.NavFrame {
        border-style: none;
        border-style: hidden;
}
div.NavFrame + div.NavFrame {
        border-top-style: none;
        border-top-style: hidden;
}
div.NavPic {
        background-color: #ffffff;
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 2px;
        float: left;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavHead {
        height: 1.6em;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 100%;
        background-color: #efefef;
        position:relative;
}
div.NavFrame p {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavContent {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavContent p {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavEnd {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px;
        line-height: 1px;
        clear: both;
}
a.NavToggle {
        position:absolute;
        top:0px;
        right:3px;
        font-weight:normal;
        font-size:smaller;
}

/*

*/

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