Failed attempts

This morning I attempted to 'add colour' onto my blog site. Well. I failed. Miserably. Going from a completely white background to a completely black background isn't exactly "exciting", is it? I tried using several other templates with more colour on them, but was having so much problems getting the template settings right, I just gave up! Then all of a sudden I felt completely useless. Surely a 12 year old can even figure it out. Am I getting more and more behind technology? Or am I just getting old and impatient???