Question New look?

Welcome to the wonders of working with Joomla. Updates to the software occasionally override the existing style sheets. As a result, I have to go back into the files and restore the style code every time it does. Give me a half hour or so and then do a hard refresh (shift+F5) and it should be back to 'normal'.

Yep. Fortunately, the more I've learned of Joomla, the more I've been able to set things up in ways that don't get overridden as easily or often... and the things that do I'm familiar with enough that I can restore them fairly quickly. In truth, I shouldn't be applying updates directly to the running site version, but setting up and working with alternate 'test versions' involves just as much work as having to restore things this way. Yes, its safer... but I take some shortcuts to keep ahead of things so my amount of work doesn't exceed the hours I have available to get it done in.

Hmm.

Yes, unfortunately, the 'alert' modes don't alter inline with the LESS or admin side template customization... which means you have to manually code the entire set of them. It isn't just one .alert-info ... there's about forty of them. In theory, the 'better' solution would be to use an existing alert mode that matches our palette (because really, they range through the whole color possible color scheme) but 'that' would require change php and not just style sheets. The template customization is surprisingly 'dumb' given how supposedly millions of people use joomla as the basis for sites.

Can I change just the one until I have a chance to re-implement the more elaborate process of shifting the whole alert styles series into color compatible options? Yes, I suppose I can do that.

On the main forums category/thread lists? Ya... they do... not sure why though.

There... that should fix the left and right edge issue... and the colors of the basic alerts.