First create a child theme so that your changes won’t be overwritten when you theme is updated. Then you can make a copy of header.php and put it in your child theme — make changes on that copy. You’ll need to know some HTML and CSS to do custom work. There are many tutorials out there — google will help you find some. Excellent info here too:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress
See this re: child themes:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
These may be helpful too:
Check out Firebug — an addon to Firefox browser that shows you which CSS is affecting an element or area of the page. Then you copy that code (or the portion that you want to change) to the custom CSS, make the change and voila! Firebug has tons of other useful tools and features for web dev work as well. Good info and tutorials on their site.
https://getfirebug.com/
Another great resource site is here:
http://www.w3schools.com
In wordpress themes twenty eleven and twenty twelve you can click to choose not to use a header image and just use the header text. You can choose a color for the header text. This means there will be a text header and a menu like the People Magazine header. Here is a link to a video screencast tutorial for creating a custom header and custom logo for theme twenty twelve. Hope this helps. Good luck. http://studiomediacam.com/headers-custum-headers-create-custom-headers/custom-header-with-logo-and-text-wordpress-theme-twenty-twelve-tutorial/
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itsezi
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Thank you, florenceoregon for the great information. I must say that unfortunately my programming skills leave a GREAT deal to be desired. I was wondering, however, if you have viewed the WP-Creativix and Showcase templates? If so, what do you think of them for pages that are more graphic than text?
Thank you again
itsezi
