How co change {author} and {comments-num} Options

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Hi there,
i would like to ask you how can i change colors of those template parts, because i'm working so hard with templates editor in cutenews options and i'm struggling with my CSS files and nothing changed :/ I'm not some webmaster guru and but i have to change colors to white and some greyish shades. Here is what i've got right now:


So here is my full story template:

CODE

<div style="width:420px; margin-bottom:30px;">
<div style="color:#FFFFFF;"><strong>{title}</strong></div>

<div style="text-align:justify; padding:3px; margin-top:3px; margin-bottom:5px; border-top:1px solid #D3D3D3; color:#FFFFFF;">{short-story}</div>

<div style="float: right; color:#FFFFFF; a:link color: #FFFFFF">[full-link]Read more [/full-link]  [com-link]{comments-num} Comments[/com-link]</div>

<div class="email" style="color:#FFFFFF; a:link color: #FFFFFF a:hover color: #FFFAFF "><em>Posted on {date} by {author}</em></div>
</div>

And it looks like inline style sheets don't work at all. Here is my main *.css file which is inluded where the "include("news/show_news.php");" is:

CODE

body {
background-image: url(images/clair_11.jpg); background-attachment: fixed;
font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:normal;
font-size: 12px;
color:#FFFFFF;
margin-left: 40px;
margin-right: 40px;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}

BODY {  
  scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFFF;
  scrollbar-track-color: #252525;
  scrollbar-face-color: #000000;
  scrollbar-highlight-color: #252525;
  scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
  scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;
  scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
}

.email{
color: #FFFFFF;
}

a:link{
color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:visited{
color: #C4BFBF;
}
a:hover{
color: #696767;
}
a:active{
color: #696767;
}/*
a{
text-decoration: none;
}
*/

* {
        padding:0;
        margin:0;

}

img {
        border:0;
}


h1 {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: 700;
    margin-top: 20px;
    text-indent: 10px;

}

h2 {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: 400;
    margin-top: 20px;

}

p {
    text-indent: 30px;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: 400;
}

I tried with the .email class but nothing changed :/ Could someone help me a little ?