Help editing index.php

Hello,

I am getting deeper and deeper into the world of WordPress and I am trying to achieve something I have not tried before.

My goal is:

In my reading settings I have set my Blog page to the page I want my blog.

However, that means that any content added to this particularly page, is overridden by your posts. Every other page of my site has a logo and title I make by using Visual Composer. I would like to be able to have this logo and title visible above the posts on the blog page.

I did my research and found an article which gave me some coding I could add to my themes index.php file. I tried adding the code but got an error message.

Having never worked with php files I am not sure where to add it amongst the text that is already there.

This is the code I found:

<?php
if ( 'page' == get_option('show_on_front') && get_option('page_for_posts') && is_home() ) : the_post();
	$page_for_posts_id = get_option('page_for_posts');
	setup_postdata(get_page($page_for_posts_id));
?>
	<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="page">
		<div class="entry-content">
			<?php the_content(); ?>
			<?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', '', $page_for_posts_id); ?>
		</div>
	</div>
<?php
	rewind_posts();
endif;
?>

and this is the what is currently in the index.php file I believe I need to edit:

<?php

// =============================================================================
// VIEWS/ETHOS/WP-INDEX.PHP
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Index page output for Ethos.
// =============================================================================

$is_filterable_index = is_home() && x_get_option( 'x_ethos_filterable_index_enable', '' ) == '1';

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

  <div class="x-container max width main">

    <?php x_get_view( 'ethos', '_post', 'slider' ); ?>

    <div class="offset cf">
      <div class="<?php x_main_content_class(); ?>" role="main">

        <?php if ( $is_filterable_index ) : ?>
          <?php x_get_view( 'ethos', '_index' ); ?>
        <?php else : ?>
          <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_index' ); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

      </div>

      <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    </div>
  </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Could anyone advise me on how where to add the new code within this file.

Thank you,

Daniel