placing text between header and posts

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  julienealvoh1 · Member · Mar 8, 2012 at 1:11 pm

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  Is there a way to place a body of text between the header image and the first post. I’m trying to create a bio and I want to place it there. My header is a “branding image, and I have a pretty high height set to it. I don’t know if thats what is messing with being able to place a text body. http://julienealvoh.wordpress.com

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  justpi · Member · Mar 8, 2012 at 2:07 pm

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  Before you worry about this you should start worrying about other things. I have a fast connection yet your front page took more than half a minute to load. For visitors with a slow connection, the browser may time out before loading all the images, and then your visitors will see nice empty beige rectangles instead of your images.

  That’s because the photos you have uploaded and inserted are huge files (the one I checked is 10MB, width 4850px, resolution 400dpi). There’s no point uploading and inserting 400dpi images when browsers display them at 72, and no point uploading and inserting 4850px wide images when your theme displays them at less than 900: you’re simply wasting your storage space and unnecessarily increasing the loading time of your pages.

  You should make copies of your images, edit them in an image editing application to scale them down to resolution 72 and width 898 maximum, and upload and insert those copies. You can also limit the number of posts per page in Settings > Reading, and/or use the read-more tag to truncate the posts or the nextpage tag to split them into numbered pages:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/nextpage/

  Or you can insert the photos as a gallery instead of individually inserted images.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/
  http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/not-the-official-wordpresscom-gallery-faq/

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  julienealvoh1 · Member · Mar 8, 2012 at 2:27 pm

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  Thankyou, I will be rescaling them. I appreciate you help

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  julienealvoh1 · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 1:10 am

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  I’m not sure if I should start a new thread, but from what I have done now with it, is it better loading?

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  justpi · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm

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  Yes, it’s better, because you’re displaying fewer images, and some of them are smaller files than before.