I need to left-justify my blog title (over my header image) – how?

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    lmighton · Member ·

    Hi
    My blog title is on top of text that’s part of my header image.
    I’m hunting and hunting for anywhere there might be an option to left-justify my blog-title text, but can’t find it.
    Is that a theme-specific option? Is there a theme where I can do that (that isn’t designed to be a photo blog)? I’m open to changing themes if necessary, as long as new theme is column-y and widget-y.
    If I had rudimentary photoshoppy skills I could maybe get creative with the initial image (which is vertical in orientation, (just to be tricky)) but…. I don’t.
    The only work-around I can think of at the moment is deleting my blog title, so that there isn’t one. That isn’t an ideal solution though.
    Thoughts?
    I searched for this in support and forums but can only find issues to do with left-justifying *post* titles… not the same.
    Thanks…
    Lisa

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    That’s coded in the theme, and it’s not configurable. You’d just have to choose a theme that puts the title where you want at the beginning (deleting the title is a terrible idea, for googlejuice reasons).

    You COULD do it with the paid CSS upgrade and a solid knowledge of CSS.

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    timethief · Member ·

    My suggestion is to change to the Twenty Ten theme. There is no lettering in the image header in Twenty Ten.

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    You mustn’t delete the actual blog title, but in the theme you’re using you’ve got the option to hide it, after you upload a new version of your header image with the title on it. You can edit your image here:
    http://www.picnik.com
    (Upload the image, then click Create, click Text, select the Georgia font if you want the Vigilance look, type your title, drag to change positioning and size, etc.)

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    @lmighton

    Your title is so long that even left justifying it will cover the slogan in the image. But if you left justify and make it into 2 lines, it should work. Plus your title will still be clickable.

    You can add blank spaces:
    Believing Impossible (about 20 blanks) Things (about 30 blanks)
    To make the blanks I’m suggesting go to settings—>general to adjust your title. Use a space made with your space bar, then this code without spaces: & nbsp ;
    Copy the space and code and paste it about 20 times after “Impossible: etc.
    Remember to save changes.

    (Panos’s method works, but the title won’t be clickable)

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    @Tess: In Vigilance the home link is the entire header image. (So Panos’s method works with no but!)

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    Ah. I didn’t realize that.
    But I should have known that of course you would have told her how to make it clickable if it wasn’t.

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    lmighton · Member ·

    These are great suggestions – from all of you. Really – thanks for taking the time with those answers. And thanks especially for the point-by-point steps. That’s really helpful.

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