<!– p {padding:5px !important } p {margin:5px !important}–>
Was able to successfully install emacs colors I wanted. This was for purpose of making emacs easier on the eyes. I find textmate very easy on the eyes and was trying to replicate that effect. Have not used textmate… but people seem to be obsessed with it. Users of Emacs seem to think it lacks a lot of features.
But anyway, am using darkgray background with white foregroud, and consolas font.
Realized the hardest part of customizing my emacs was that most tutorials did not explicitly state that downloading emacs does not automatically create a .emacs file. Rather I had to create one, which is fine 
Just didn’t know what to modify! Was searching all over the place. Toward the end of saving other equally web-inept ppl from the same google torture, here are the lines of lisp I used for changing my background, foreground, and font type. Note: I’m color blind.
;; Set cursor color
(set-cursor-color “white”)
;; Set mouse color
(set-mouse-color “white”)
;; Set foreground and background
(set-foreground-color “white”)
(set-background-color “#2f4f4f”)
;;; Set highlighting colors for isearch and drag
(set-face-foreground ‘highlight “white”)
(set-face-background ‘highlight “blue”)
(set-face-foreground ‘region “cyan”)
(set-face-background ‘region “blue”)
(set-face-foreground ‘secondary-selection “skyblue”)
(set-face-background ‘secondary-selection “darkblue”)
(set-face-font ‘default “-outline-Consolas-normal-r-normal-normal-14-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1″)
what’s up with all teh spacing?