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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: changing header text to a logoWhich theme are you using? I don’t believe that my code below will work on all themes, but I’ll give you what’s working for me.
If you’ve made the header text part of your logo and wish to exclude it, then you should do this:
If your theme has an “images” folder, you’ll want to make your header image, name it (header.jpg, for example), and upload it to the “images” folder. If your theme does not have an “images” folder, then go ahead and make one, then put your header/logo image in there.
In your header.php page, look for the
<body>tag. In most themes that I have used, the place for the header image is just below this tag.The code for your header text may look similar – but not exactly – to this:
<body>
<div id="rap">
<div id="header">
<div id="title"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></div>
<div id="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>The div id “title” is the header text, the blog title, and the div id “description” is the tagline. If you have these things in your logo and want to delete them both and insert your logo/header image, change your code to this:
<body>
<div id="rap">
<div id="header"><img src="images/header.jpg" width="enter number of pixels" height="enter number of pixels" border="0" alt="name of your website"></div>
</div>If you wish to make the header image clickable, so that people can click on it and go back to your main page, making the code look like this usually works for me, but I understand that this doesn’t work for all themes:
<body>
<div id="rap">
<div id="header"><a href="http://yourwebsite.com"><img src="http://themetamorph.com/wp-content/themes/easy-white-10/images/header.jpg" width="850" height="200" border="0" alt="TheMetamorph.com"></a></div>
</div>Hope that works out.
Also? Definitely use the search feature at the top of the support page, this question has been asked and answered quite a lot. 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Adsense small square not fitting in sidebar?Yep – that block pops out on the right for me, too. IE7, 1024×768 screen res.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Cooking-Board.comIs it just me, or is the internet a little bit slow today? This site also took a little while to load up for me.
Overall, the site looks a little bit busier than it needs to, IMO. A few suggestions –
1 – I’m not crazy about the ad in the first post. If you must have ads in the content section of the site, I think it’s better to place them in between posts than inside a post. The ad has nothing to do with the content of the post and it’s a bit confusing.
2 – The header section of the posts is a bit busy. I personally would put the date on its own line, move the rating system down next to the comments, and remove the number of views altogether.
3 – The “departments” section in the left sidebar is a bit redundant, since you have all those pages listed across the top of the blog. You could eliminate that section of the sidebar.
4 – On a food blog, I think it’s important to keep the categories section in the sidebar handy and quite visible when a viewer first opens the site. I noticed that it’s far down on the right sidebar. I’ve also noticed that you have an archives drop-down menu on the left sidebar, which contains archives by month and category, and I haven’t seen those combined into one drop-down menu before. Again – my personal opinion, I would remove the categories from that drop down menu and just leave it to archives by month. Also, I’d move the categories from their current location in the right sidebar over to the current position of the archives drop down menu, and let the archives drop down menu rest below the list of categories. It’s a more visible position for your categories and eliminates some redundancy.
5 – One more thing about the categories – I’d indent the sub categories more. Right now, in IE7, it just appears that some of the categories are misaligned and it looks a little sloppy and is hard to read.
6 – Another idea would be to make the right sidebar the same color as the left one. It puts a little more separation between the content and the sidebar.
All of that being said, I’m adding the site to my favorites because it’s always nice to find a food blog that includes healthy recipes. 🙂
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Your opinions and thoughts please?I agree, the title is very cool. And the site is nice and neat as well. I agree with gestroud, though, the small font on the gray in the right column is just a little difficult to read.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: StayGold studio blogThe site takes some time to load. The header image takes quite a while to show up. And I’m on cable, not dial-up.
And yes, I’m viewing in IE7 and I am seeing the blue border around the post titles.
Other than those two isses, I think it looks fine.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Google AddsWell, I’m not quite sure where you want the ads…in the sidebar? Add the Google Ad code into the area of the sidebar where you want the ads to appear.
I’ve never put google ads on a blog, so I’m not sure. I’ve seen quite a few topics started on this subject already, so try using the search box at the top of the page, you’ll probably find your answer if this doesn’t help.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: 1st site- whatcha think?I agree with moshu, WAY too many posts on the opening page. Watch your vertical scrollbar on the right of your screen and you’ll see what I mean. I’d put 10 posts on the front page, MAX.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hacked.Contact host, start changing passwords, verify that he’s using the latest version of WP available.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploaded my own theme – Template is missingUm, silly question, but are those the only pages you have uploaded? Don’t you have pages named sidebar.php, header.php, footer.php, comment.php, something along those lines?
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: HELP!: Tips For Traffic To Your BlogThe big rule that I come across is comment, comment, comment. Find other blogs of your genre and comment on them. If your comment is witty or intriguing, there’s the chance that other commenters or the blog owner will visit your site. Of course, I think a factor could be whether the blogs you’re commenting on are hugely popular – the blog owner may not have time to read all the comments or may already have a lot of blogs they read, so there is that consideration.
Also, link, link, link. Link to articles, posts, and other blogs. Bloggers like me will be curious about who is linking to them and why, and will go check out those links.
Other things: What does your site look like? Is your layout clean and easy to navigate? Are your posts easy to read? Decent grammar/spelling/etc? How about ads? Sometimes if the first thing someone sees on a blog is ads, they’ll close the window and won’t come back.
Those are the rules I’m constantly reading about, but what do I know, I don’t have many commenters myself.
By the way, it is DeLurking Week 2007, in case anyone is interested.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: EducatedIt looks pretty nice. Just a few nitpicky things –
In IE7, your tag cloud looks squashed and very crowded. I know that they normally do, anyway, what with the varying sizes of the different words and everything, but there’s very little space between the words, so it’s just very hard to read.
The black bar at the top of the header, where your search box and blog title are located, is taller than it needs to be, IMO. Personally, I would shorten it a little bit.
Your page links are at the top of the blog, plus in the sidebar? That’s a little unnecessary, I think. One place or the other would be just fine. I think that the About box in the sidebar is a little redundant as well, since you have the blurb above your most recent blog post that just as easily serves the function of the About box.
Also in IE7, but not in Firefox, the title of your most recent blog post is a bit wonky. The word “SmartFTP” is overlapping the little green box, it looks a little sloppy. It appears to render correctly in Firefox, though.
Overall, though, the theme is very nice. The header image is lovely, and the blog is easy to read and navigate.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Uploading your own ThemeYou do it the same way you upload any other theme. Use your FTP to upload the theme into your wp-content/themes directory, then when you login to your wordpress, go to the Presentation tab at the top of the page and select your theme.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: First website everI agree – gray on black is too difficult to read, and I don’t have old eyes.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2 Unique WordPress Themes – New & Free / Dark or Light Themes!I like the theme, but the dark one is a bit harsh on the eyes, I think it’s that particular shade of pink. I don’t have a problem with blogs that use white text on black backgrounds, and in fact have a blog that does so myself, so that’s not the issue.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Launched my first blog todayI don’t know of any plugins, I think what you’re looking for is the expand/collapse java script. I’ve been looking for some help on that issue myself, here are a few links I’ve found which may help, I’ve not had time to try any of them myself, though, so I don’t know –
http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-include-categories-for-your.html
http://jdstiles.com/java/collapsemenu.html
http://www.scriptdungeon.com/script.php?ScriptID=1498
http://jdstiles.com/java/folderheader.html