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Took me all day, but I’ve come up with a solution for this.
NOTE: this new solution is incompatible with the find&replace one posted above. Make sure you delete the replacement rule from RTFR plugin first.
Also, you need to delete class-header-nav_walker.php from child theme and only leave the original in parent theme.

My advice is to eliminate all other styling you’ve done for menu and reaply it (if necessary) after you activate the the filter function.

While you’re at it, you might also want to replace the white text-shadow, looking out of place especially on hover. Completely optional, of course. Besides a.site-title I have added a few more selectors to the rule for the other header elements that have the white text-shadow problem. I hope I haven’t missed anything:

a.site-title,
.navbar .nav > li > a,
.navbar-wrapper .navbar h2,
h2.site-description {
text-shadow: 1px 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.35);
}

P.S.: put it as a new CSS rule, don’t mix it with the previous one.

@electricfeet: this is the beauty of WP and its’ child themes system.

functions.php of the child theme is an addition to functions.php of the parent theme.

The really cool part is that the child version is read just before the parent version. Why is it so cool? Because it gives theme developers the ability to make their functions pluggable. To wrap them in a

if( ! function_exists('name_of_function') ) {
  function name_of_function( $params ) {
  // do some stuff with the $params  }
}

This gives child theme ‘devs’ the ability to completely replace functions declared in the parent theme. By the time WP finds them in parent functions.php they exist and get skipped (because of the function_exists() condition).

However, nikeo used another great feature of WP: apply_filters().
This gives us the ability to declare (in functions.php of the child theme) a new function that filters the output of an existing one (so we’re not replacing the function, just alter/replace its output):

add_filter('old_function', 'new_function');

Now all you need to do is create the new_function() (also in your child theme’s functions.php). Without any parameter, it simply replaces the output of old_function with its own output:

function new_function() {
$new_output = 'New output';
echo $new_output;
}

If you want the new_function to alter the content of old_function, declare it with one parameter, and that param will contain the output of the old_function:

function new_function($output) {
/* $output now holds the output of the old_function and you can alter
 * it as you want, using preg_replace or adding to it or hacking it
 * anyway you like. In this example I'm just adding $new_output after
 * the original output:
 */
$new_output = '<div>This text has been added using apply_filters on old_function(), never touching parent theme core files! Cool, huh?</div>';
echo $output.$new_output;
/* Please note that some functions need the output echoed and others
 * want it returned, so you'll need to replace echo with return in
 * some cases. Just look at old_function() and you'll know.
 */
}

Hope this sheds some light on why WP’s slogan is “Code is poetry”. 🙂

And why nikeo did such a great job with the dev tools. If you look in the tootips, you will see on last line:
filterable with: add_filter(‘name_of_original_function’, ‘generic_name_for_new_function’); so you can add in your child theme’s functions.php

add_filter('name_of_original_function', 'coolest_function_name_evah')
function coolest_function_name_evah($original_output) {
// filter and return/echo the output to your liking
}

And you’re done without having to worry about Customizr updates overriding your filter.

@ithril:
In your solution, customizr/parts/class-footer-footer_main.php gets overridden by [child-theme-folder]/parts/class-footer-footer_main.php.
This means that if in some theme update the author decides to improve or change the footer social links or the back-to-top link in the footer, anyone using my solution will benefit from the upgrade, while the ones using your solution will not, because the whole file from parent theme gets ignored. Also, my solution replaces a function, not a file, and will continue to work even if the parent function will be moved in another file or if the file structure changes and the theme expects a different output from class-footer-footer_main.php, while yours will graciously fail.

@rdellconsulting: can you change the contents of the footer with your solution?

@albafitness: that code should go in your functions.php file from your child theme folder, just before the ending line, which should remain intact and contain:

?>

Actually, because your child theme is newly created and I assume you don’t have any other custom function added to it, just save the following code as functions.php in your child theme, replacing the old functions.php:

<?php
add_filter('tc_credits_display', 'my_custom_credits');
function my_custom_credits(){
echo '<div class="span4 credits">
    		    	<p> &middot; @copy; '.esc_attr( date( 'Y' ) ).' <a href="'.esc_url( home_url() ).'" title="'.esc_attr(get_bloginfo()).'" rel="bookmark">'.esc_attr(get_bloginfo()).'</a> &middot; {Replace this accolade with your link, Alba!} &middot; </p></div>';
}
// Add any future custom php functions after this line and make sure the last line of the file remains untouched!

?>

There is one more very important instruction which I think you missed in my previous post, Alba:

Of course, you’ll need to replace the part between the last two middots with your own stuff.

To make it easier, this time I wrote {Replace this accolade with your link, Alba!} where your link should go.

If you want to read someone else’s review over the best plugins for a task in WordPress,

[your_search_engine_of_choice]/search?q=best+wordpress+[what_you_need]+plugin(s)/

will usually find it to you…

http://www.google.com/search?q=best+wordpress+author+box+plugins

Alternatively, you could just search the WordPress plugin repository:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=author-box

Go to Customiz’it! panel in the backend (the blue button in the bar). Open the Custom CSS tab and input:

.archive.category .archive-header .format-icon:before { content: ""; }

If you want to remove all the icons from the theme, not just the one for .archive.category, input this code:

#main-wrapper .format-icon:before { content: ""; }

If you want to change their color, change the theme color from the Customiz’it! dashboard section or add this code in the Custom CSS tab:

#main-wrapper .format-icon:before { color: #ddd; }

#ddd is just a random custom color here, you can change it to any other valid html color code.

And, by the way, if you have more questions that are not related to the original request, you should open new threads, so they get properly indexed and other users benefit from the answers.