How to edit start page?

I'm trying to change the actual text color. Thanks again for your response. I did try this technique and so far no luck still. Specifically, I tried adding that to both 'template_css.php' :

#nav li.active {
background:<?php echo $topMenuTabActive; ?>;
color: #000000 !important;
}

#nav li:hover {
background:<?php echo $topMenuTabHover; ?>;
color: #000000 !important;
}


AND when that didn't work, I added it to template_css.css (just in case it might work):

#nav > li.active, #nav > li:hover {
background:url(../images/square.png) no-repeat;
behavior: url(templates/hot_furniturestore/css/PIE.php);
position:relative;
color: #000000 !important;
padding:0;
}

#nav li.active li, #nav li li:hover {
color: #000000 !important;

}

Strange, I would really have expected that to work.

Ok put then this in index.php of template just before </head> . That must work with no chance of unsuspected behavior

<style type="text/css">
.active {
color:#000000!important;
}
<style>

Btw
did you add maybe class suffix to menu?

I can't believe that still didn't work. You can check it out at the link below and see that 'home' is active but is not black. I can see the style in the source code and I even restarted my browser in case it was caching the page for some reason, but it still is having no effect. I have spent a couple of hours trying to find an answer for this. Never would I have guessed that such a small thing would have been such a challenge. Thanks again for the feedback. If you have any other ideas, I'd really appreciate it. This is such a simple thing that should be able to be changed with any template. Here's the link below:

www.insigniainspirations.com/bath-kitchen-design/index.php

I forgot "...a span" last time.Try this

<style type="text/css">
.active a span{
color:#000000!important;
}
<style>

You are the most esteemed Joomla GURU. It's working. Thanks so much!

Hi again, I have everything on the front page edited except for the title of the page. It is using front page blog layout and though I keep searching for where that title is coming from, I cannot find it. I need to change the home page title. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.