I searched the forum and have read the DotNetNuke 4 book and did not see the answer to how to set the background color for the page.  I am not showing the containers and have figured out how to set the background color for the containers.  However, that leaves white areas between the containers and below the containers in the bottom of the page.  I am guessing this is something I can set in a CSS, but do not know the section to add. 

Hello jspoon

When creating your skin for your page, you also create a skin.css file into which you add all your styles and background colours for your skin/page.

You set the background colour similar to this:

body{background:#FFF;height:100%;text-align:center;}

The background colour for your panes or columns similar to this if you are creating a skin using tables: 

#columnleft{float:left;width:20%;margin-right:1%; background-color:Blue; }

#columncenter{float:left;width:50%; background-color:Green;}

#columnright{float:right;width:28%;margin-left:0.5%; background-color:Red;}

I hope this helps.

Lynn