If you search the support files you will notice that many users wish to remove the #eee borders that surround most content areas.
The custom.css mod I found is the one
posted here
I do expect that a mod within a core css file be permanent. But this is being overwritten by some other file.
This is the problem

Hi Ismael and Devin,

I apologize in advance… long reply coming. I hope it helps. :-) I got to look at the diffs between your (Ismael’s) Homepage Test and mine:

1. The first color section has extra parameters in your version: video=” video_ratio=’16:9′.

2. The three placeholder-tall images on the homepage are aligned center in yours and left in mine.

3. The middle placeholder-tall image is animated top-to-bottom in yours and bottom-to-top in mine. I intend for just that image to be bottom-to-top.

4. Your color sections have shadow set to no-shadow. Mine are set to shadow.

5. More categories are included in the portfolio grid on mine.

6. Your homepage-widgets color section has an empty av_textblock at the top of it. (I think I saw this in my document’s layout later and removed it.)

7. The testimonial subtitles are different.

8. The title is empty on my version’s contact form because there is a custom h2 title above the form.

9. Small differences in the contact form like the to: email address and the label for Email address.

There are also these changes in the text between yours and mine, maybe because of edits I made to my document while working on the CSS:

1. There are no paragraph tags around some of your paragraphs. I’ve added some paragraphs that have their own CSS classes to mine. (I’m using the Disable WPAutoP plugin on my site.)

2. I’ve added icons above the 5 services buttons. (I have not uploaded the icon font yet, so they are not displaying.)

3. I switched the View our Portfolio button’s class from secondary-button to tertiary-button.

4. Under the Homepage – column 1 widget area, I added a textbox with a button for viewing more articles.

5-6. I added a class on the h3 for Why user experience design instead of web design?. I also split that textblock to put the button into a separate textblock.

7. I changed the testimonial widget’s header to be an h3 with its own class.

8. I added a Park/Company field to

The rest of the differences are just whitespace.

So, to sum up the shortcode diffs: I don’t see any differences that may affect the color section width other than the video parameters being added to yours.

Here are the differences in the full HTML for the two pages:

1. Their html_entry_id_ and avia_entry_id_ numbers are different.

2. Your page’s images and CSS are using Pagespeed to optimize them; mine are not – maybe because your page is currently my site’s homepage. Similarly, your version minimizes some CSS that the plugins have not externalized.

3. On yours, the Tipsy Social Icons CSS is within a <style> tag instead of a <link> tag.

4. The plugins’ scripts are imported in a different order.

5. Mine has a <link rel=’next’ …> tag.

6. Your page uses the .home class.

7. The breadcrumb trails are generated differently. Quite a bit of difference here, so please refer to the files’ HTML.

8. Mine has this between the breadcrumbs and the div id for homepage-hero:

<div class=’container_wrap container_wrap_first main_color fullsize’>
<div class=’container’>
<main class=’template-page content twelve alpha units’ role=”main” itemprop=”mainContentOfPage”>
<article class=’post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-354′ itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”http://schema.org/CreativeWork”&gt;
<div class=”entry-content-wrapper clearfix”>
<header class=”entry-content-header”></header><div class=”entry-content” itemprop=”text”>

9. The color section id’s in mine also contain classes like avia-builder-el-0, el_before_av_section, and avia-builder-el-first. These are also present in other things I built with the Avia editor, such as images.

10. There are <main> elements associated with each color section ID in yours.

11. My contact form uses a fieldset and classes like textare_label hidden textare_label_avia_message_2.

12. Yours has some obfuscated JavaScript toward the end, starting with var addComment.

I’ll continue looking into this to see if one element on the page seems to be causing the color section width to break. Firebug might show me this.

Was your version created after I upgraded to Enfold 2.7.1? Would I be able to resolve this issue by creating new documents with the latest version of Enfold?

Devin – Thanks. Right, I wasn’t going to change the raw shortcodes unless someone here instructed me to do that. I just turned on the debug mode long enough to do the diff above.

I’ve commented out the code for adding the debug mode. Feel free to turn debug mode back on if you need it for looking at this issue. Also, if you need them, I have saved files containing the shortcodes for both of our versions of Homepage Test. Could I email these to you?

Thanks,
David

Dude, is this what you are looking for?

[av_heading tag='h2' padding='10' heading='Elders' color='' style='' custom_font='' size='' subheading_active='' subheading_size='15' custom_class=''][/av_heading]

[av_one_half first]

[av_team_member name='Kevin Harrison' job='Head Elder' src='http://192.185.4.114/~castweb/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/harrison.gif' attachment='2511' description='Linda & I met in the summer of 1964 and dated through high school and part of college until we got married in 1970, after my Junior year in college. We have been blessed with three children (Aaron, Amy and Jason), all of whom married a Christian spouse and are very active in their own churches. We have been blessed with six grandchildren and all six of them know Jesus personally – what a blessing that is.']

[av_hr class='default' height='50' shadow='no-shadow' position='center']

[av_team_member name='Gary Clawson' job='Elder' src='http://192.185.4.114/~castweb/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/clawson.gif' attachment='2505' description='Linda & I are presently the scholarship coordinators for Companeros en Ministerio - a ministry to children in Tijuana Mexico. We visit them twice a year and buy shoes, uniforms and get updated information for all of the sponsors in the United States. Students are hearing the gospel and some are being baptized. What a humbling feeling that God has chosen us to be part of this ministry.'][/av_team_member]

[av_hr class='default' height='50' shadow='no-shadow' position='center']

[av_team_member name='Duane Denlinger' job='Elder' src='http://192.185.4.114/~castweb/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/denlinger.gif' attachment='2508' description='Linda & I are presently the scholarship coordinators for Companeros en Ministerio - a ministry to children in Tijuana Mexico. We visit them twice a year and buy shoes, uniforms and get updated information for all of the sponsors in the United States. Students are hearing the gospel and some are being baptized. What a humbling feeling that God has chosen us to be part of this ministry.'][/av_team_member]

[/av_one_half][av_one_half]
[av_team_member name='Steve French' job='Elder' src='http://192.185.4.114/~castweb/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/french.gif' attachment='2510' description='Linda & I are presently the scholarship coordinators for Companeros en Ministerio - a ministry to children in Tijuana Mexico. We visit them twice a year and buy shoes, uniforms and get updated information for all of the sponsors in the United States. Students are hearing the gospel and some are being baptized. What a humbling feeling that God has chosen us to be part of this ministry.']

[av_hr class='default' height='50' shadow='no-shadow' position='center']

[av_team_member name='Dave Hollinger' job='Elder' src='http://192.185.4.114/~castweb/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hollinger.gif' attachment='2512' description=' Linda & I met in the summer of 1964 and dated through high school and part of college until we got married in 1970, after my Junior year in college. We have been blessed with three children (Aaron, Amy and Jason), all of whom married a Christian spouse and are very active in their own churches. We have been blessed with six grandchildren and all six of them know Jesus personally – what a blessing that is.

Linda & I are presently the scholarship coordinators for Companeros en Ministerio - a ministry to children in Tijuana Mexico. We visit them twice a year and buy shoes, uniforms and get updated information for all of the sponsors in the United States. Students are hearing the gospel and some are being baptized. What a humbling feeling that God has chosen us to be part of this ministry.

I graduated from New Madison High School in 1967
I went to Manchester College and graduated with a BS in Math Education in 1971
I taught Math at Arcanum-Butler Jr. High for 35 years and retired in 2006
I first accepted Jesus at Beech Grove Church of the Brethren and was baptized when I was 13 years old, but did not really fall in love with Jesus until the summer of 1978
I came to Castine in the summer of 1971
I took the 3 year reading course and finished it in 1986
Linda & I were called as life time Deacons in 1986
I was called as an Elder at Castine in 2007 ?? (I think)
I serve on the Ministry team
I oversee the Prayer & Fasting ministry
I work with Men’s fraternity with Probationers
I have had a men’s share group at my home since 1994'][/av_team_member]

[av_hr class='default' height='50' shadow='no-shadow' position='center']

[av_team_member name='George Skidmore' job='Elder' src='http://192.185.4.114/~castweb/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/George-Skidmore.jpg' attachment='2598' description='I feel very blessed to have been a part of the Castine Church family for the past 25 years. I accepted Christ as my personal Savior and was baptized at the age of 17. God has blessed me, and I have grown in my faith and developed a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. It continues to get sweeter every day!

My desire would be that everyone come to know Jesus Christ in a real and personal way, and that we be united as one body to serve God as He calls.

God has allowed me to use my gifts and abilities that He has given me to serve in many ways in the church. I have served as a teacher, deacon, church board member, Tijuana Mission trip, worked with the Disaster Relief Ministry rebuilding communities following natural disasters, and the soup kitchen.

I have been married to Martha for 37 wonderful years. We have four married adult children who have blessed us with six grandchildren.

I believe in Castine’s Core Beliefs. I believe the Bible is the complete truth, and I appreciate our pastors who preach the truth. I believe an elder led church is biblical.'][/av_team_member]
[/av_one_half]

[av_hr class='default' height='50' shadow='no-shadow' position='center']

[av_contact email='Kevin.R.H (Email address hidden if logged out) ' button='Submit' title='Want to contact an elder?' sent='Your message has been sent!' subject='Website Contact Form Submission' autorespond='Thanks for contacting the elders. One of us will get back to you soon.' captcha='active']
[av_contact_field label='Name' type='text' check='is_empty' options='' width='']
[av_contact_field label='E-Mail' type='text' check='is_email' options='' width='']
[av_contact_field label='Subject' type='text' check='is_empty' options='' width='']
[av_contact_field label='Message' type='textarea' check='is_empty' options='' width='']
[/av_contact]

Sorry, I didn’t mean the font size of the blog post title but of the site title, shown in the header.

Thanks, that works. How to include the site description as well? And how to increase the font size of the blog title?

Ok, so font size is working and i got slide 1 to display on page load. the problem i have now is that the caption blocks are not uniform in size and when you remove mouse, it does not default back to 1st slide. is there a way to correct this?

Thanks.

Hi,

I went to check your link but im not getting enough information to proceed and I am not even sure your reply answers my needs. Hence, le me recap what I am facing.

On Chrome or other browser I am not getting the proper font consistancy and nice look as many good sites like the one you ve juste reefered to (http://css-tricks.com) or http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/.

I don’t know what is the best configuration to get a nice looking font cross browsers. Right now I have set the font-weight at 300 but my fonts are now looking too thin (that’s why i contacted you) on Chrome. I am using OPEN-SANS i am ok to keep it if I get proper font rendering.

This is my added CSS code for fonts:

body {
font-style: normal;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: 300;
line-height: 1.5;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

Please take a look and if you have any idea help me. Thanks a lot in advance. Adrien

I appended:

#footer::before {
content: ‘Disclaimer’;
margin-left: 12%;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: “EBGaramond”, Georgia, Times, serif;
font-weight: normal;
}

to custom.css to no result…

I have a lengthy disclaimer that needs to be added and need formatting control over it and the widgets don’t do the trick for me…should not be that hard to get it working…I would imagine…but I have not figured it out yet

I did change the permissions to all the .css files…but that did not work…anyidea why its not seeming append properly? I am veru interested to understand why all these formatting options for color and the custom css seem to be not flowing through to the front end…