indrasinha

Hi Gordon, this is how I did it. I was using the same default theme. To change it I went to:

/wp-content/themes/default/images/

There is a file called kubrickheader.jpg – this is the blue blob. First save a copy of this file as something like defaultheader.jpg. Next make another graphic in Photoshop, save it optimised for the web, and call it kubrickheader.jpg.

You can change the title of your blog in Options. It will appear over your new image in default white.

You might want to get rid of the title because your graphic already incorporates typography. I didn’t have this problem because my new graphic had a white background, so I could just leave the original title alone.

The two methods for getting rid of it are given in the help documentation. Both involve amending the CSS style sheet.

The first method is effectively to reduce the title’s dimensions to 0, so it doesn’t show up.

The second is to set its position to -1000 pixels, ie so far off the left of the screen that it can never be seen.

I won’t go into details of how to do these things in case I get them wrong, but it’s all there in the help.

Good luck, Indra

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