I am trying to change the background colour on the page from red to black, on the very outside of the page. I have been playing around with the code but it won't change colour. Any help greatly appreciated.

style.css

instead of attaching why dont u post css and html here?

 

and for body background color try

 

body{background:pink;}

 

for changing color inside any container add a class or id to it

 

for example

<div class="content">

</div>

 

and in style sheet add

.content{background:orange;}

Looks like you have an image for your background so you wont see any change in color.

 

on line 10 change

 

body { background:url(../images/bg_bot.jpg) center 0 repeat #faf3ed; }

 

to

 

body { background: #000; }