Setting the styles for comments.
Part 1 of this tweak is available here.
Open the CSS file, named style.css located in the current theme folder and define the following:
padding:10px 0px 0px 30px;
margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;
background:url("images/commenticon.gif") no-repeat top left;
font-size:0.9em;
}
.comments-Byauthor{
padding:10px 0px 0px 30px;
margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;
color:#c60;
background:url("images/authorcommenticon.gif") no-repeat top left;
font-size:0.9em;
}
/* backgrounds for alternate comments and author comments alt is for oddcomments, 1,3,5 etc. def is for 2nd 4th comment etc., auth is for author comments. */
.alt{background:#FDF5E6;border:1px dashed #cc0;margin:-10px 0px 0px 0px;padding:10px;}
.def{background:#F6F0D4;border:1px dashed #cc0;margin:-10px 0px 0px 0px;padding:10px;}
.auth{background:#F6F6D9;border:1px dashed #c90;margin:-10px 0px 0px 0px;padding:10px;}
Make sure that you have created appropriate icons and placed them in the images folder. Also make sure that the style definitions match your site design!.