Can each Block in the layout engine have its own background colour?
This would be a big way to customize the look of the templates.
This has been discussed various times on here but I don’t think I’ve seen a definitive simple answer – in particular there’s been a lot of discussion across various threads that block IDs YUI seem to change so targeting a block ID with color doesn’t seem to work permanently.
Colored blocks are pretty standard now on major websites as a way of structuring different types of content. See the examples below: