http://francoirishkitchen.tumblr.com/

I recently set up a new tumblr and I am looking to alter the CSS a little but I'm very new so am having trouble with it.

You see the inks beneath the title? Home, About etc.? I want to change the colour of that text and the mouseovers so that they reflect the colours of the irish flag (green, white and orange).

Changing the HTML doesn't work so I take it I have to do it via. the CSS, but I don't have access to the CSS file, only the ability to add additional code, so I don't know how to preserve the other aspects of the style of those links whilst simply changing the colours.

The CSS styles seem to be at the top of the html in my browser. Recheck your html.

Hello Kooki
You are right to change the colors from the CSS, adding markup for styling is an outdated practice.
Normal state - Line #79 of your CSS has this entry -

Code:

#nav li a {
   color:#13C2ED; /*changes text color*/
   font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode";
   text-decoration:none;
   font-weight:bold;
   font-size:12px;
   padding:10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

Code:

#nav li a:hover {
   color:#262626; /*changes text color*/
   background:#13C2ED; /*changes background color*/
}