First things first: Before we go editing and poking about in the CSS for your community, I have one important piece of advice. Always make a copy of the contents of your theme editor before you start making changes. Just copy it all into Notepad, and save a copy. This makes it much easier to go back if things go wrong.

The first thing to know about styling the like button is that it has two states: Default and Liked. The default state is when the active user has not liked an object. When you…