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Oh Man! Can I relate to this!
Ed - you're right, it 'should' work the way you expect it to, but unfortunately, that's not how it was meant to work.
So - maybe you looked at several pages in your site after you made your color changes? Did you see the color change anywhere, like in different templates, or anywhere except the home page?
I don't know about Minimum specifically, but generally, the 'home page' is an exception to the rule and the 'settings' section of Genesis doesn't necessarily affect the home page. So the way the thinking goes, you're supposed to magically know that and you're also supposed to jump into the css of the child theme and edit the colors for the home page elements directly.
I don't own Minimum, so I can't give you a specific line reference into the style.css, but if you poke around in there (make a backup first), don't be surprised if you find some nice annotations to guide you along the way.

To summarize, the settings affect 'the whole site,' and the home page is an exception to sitewide modifications, so it's got it's own separate styles, and that's on purpose so you don't accidentally change the home page.

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Hey Toby - Let me suggest you start by using Firebug on the resource page example you gave. Take a look at what they've done, and see if that gives you inspiration.
The where / what / how of this is 99% modifying the css of your child theme, and most likely you'll be writing some new css to get your desired effect.
A "secret" that I keep coming back to is that most every element in Genesis is wrapped in its own id attribute, followed by a class. So a lot of the parts of the Framework are referenced in this pattern.
For example, a widget named 'Home Widget 1' might have an id of #HomeWidget1 followed by a class .widget-class ... so you can get into the css and be pretty specific about the scope of the style you want to assign.
Give that a shot, maybe by modifying the background color only of the id you're after, see if you get some success, and then you'll be able to refine your choices pretty easily.
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Hi pencil - of course you'll need to talk to an attorney for all questions that include the statement, "Is this legal?" I'm not an attorney.
Short answer - no that's probably not legal. You don't own the rights to the music, so you're basically taking someone else's property and giving it away for free. Bad idea, consequences can range from a letter from a law firm up to a court case and a big fat fine.
So ... yeah don't do that.
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Hi Mike - Sorry to reroute you, and as a fellow Epik theme owner I feel your pain, but may I suggest you post your question over at appfinite.com? Since this is Wes Stratham's theme, he's likely the best one to share this answer with you.

Or, maybe you already did post over there and struck out?
-DonO

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Hi kaymartin - ok so this is a pretty common problem, and you're right, it's a little daunting. What you basically have to do is create an hmtl page (they are calling that a template, but it's just regular ol' html) that includes all of the elements you want from your site.
It's a good amount of work to create this, but if you know css and html, it's just a matter of setting up the html and building the pieces and parts from your existing site.
If you are at a loss as to how to start, then you may save time and headache by hiring someone to write the html for you. Check with the Rezovation people, too, and they may have some suggestions.
Oh, and if you haven't already done it, you might try googling around for something like "convert wordpress theme to html" or something like that; maybe someone's written a converter to help you get started.
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HI pencil. Let's pretend you own the rights to all the music you want people to listen to. In that instance, it's quite easy to upload all your music to a storage space (like Amazon S3, for example), and then link to the music from your website.

If you *don't* own the music, but you want to link to someone else's music, that's a little tougher. The easiest way might be to create a playlist on Youtube, and then embed a Youtube player on your site.

Give that a try; hope that helps.

-DonO

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I fiddled with it a bit more and fixed it, woot!
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