Help?!? New Blogger Needs Header!
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Help?!? Just started the blog thing and am really enjoying it. Nearly computer illiterate. Does someone have a little time to help me personalize a header?!?
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Are you hosted here at wordpress.com? If you are, one thing that would help us out is to link your username to your blog URL so that we can easily get to it to help you in the future. In your admin, go to users > your profile and under “contact info” put your complete blog URL (starting with http:// into the website field and then click “update profile.
You can pretty much do anything you want for a header. When creating and uploading a custom header image to wordpress.com here are some basics worth remembering:
(1) You can find which themes support custom headers, and the maximum header sizes for the most popular themes here: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/which-themes-can-i-add-a-header-image-to/
(2) Be sure your image is one of these file types – jpg, jpeg, png, gif (Note that bmp’s cannot be uploaded due to size).
(3) If you are using iPhoto, then use the “export” function under the file menu to export the image to your desktop before trying to upload it to WordPress. There seems to be something iPhoto does to the jpg files that wordpress does not like unless you “export” them.
(4) Do not use anything in the file name except letters and numbers. Use no spaces, no dashes, no underscores, or any type of special character or punctuation, except for the dot between the file name and the extension. Also make sure that the file name has an extension.
(5) Optimize your images so that your blog pages will load faster. See http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/optimise-your-images/
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