# Place for total coding beginners to learn how to customise?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 9, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/place-for-total-coding-beginners-to-learn-how-to-customise/130555 "2019-10-09T09:17:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/place-for-total-coding-beginners-to-learn-how-to-customise/130555/15 "2019-10-25T11:46:09Z")

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Thanks @justin. The trouble with advice like that is that it expects you to know how to ‘change the background colour by editing the CSS in the theme compoment edit panel’. My original post was about being an actual total beginner (the ones who got nothing about coding in school etc) so to ‘edit the CSS’ is not obvious. I don’t know what needs to go on a new line, whether to use spaces etc. When I cut/pasted the ‘theme components’ into my custom panel, it certainly didn’t set the wiki panel green and I don’t have the basics to know where I’ve gone wrong. For now, I’m just avoiding this stuff and using the basic settings, but some in our community (ie no techies) are keen to create collaborative documents on the forum and Wiki function seems perfect- but the basic settings are v subtle. Might just link people to a google doc for now…

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