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Posted 3 years ago #
Hi, I am new to wordpress and am working with my first blog. I have a header that is 1000px wide by 144px tall, and I would like it to replace the default banner. I watched a youtube video on customizing the header, and it restricted the width to ~930px. If someone would take the time to help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Also, my banner has the title of the blog included in it, so I would like to remove the default text that is on the current header. Not sure how to do this. Thank you for any help you will provide.
Hi
You change the width of the various sections of the template in style.css in your theme folder /wp-content/themes/{themename}/
Find the lines defining the widest part of the site - typically header and content or container, and change them to what you want them to be. Generally you have to change more than one.
You might consider slightly reducing your banner width to 960 or 980 (and reducing the height proportionally) because anything over 960 - 980 will produce a horizontal scrollbar for those browsing at 1024 x 768.
The default text you want to remove would be in header.php in the same folder.
