Too much dead space at top of blog

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  3songsbonn · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 8:17 am

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  My problem on greyzed is that my header block is too deep – the black backgrounded JPEG section I added takes up almost half of an 18in screen. However, if I use a narrower image it just reveals more of the original, rather empty, background image. I want to reduce the headers depth and move the text of my posts further up so that readers immediately see something to read. I guess I need a way to move the original background image up so the blank bit of it would be covered by my own, narrower than at present, logo.

  I hope someone understands all that and can help?!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 8:25 am

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  Create your new shorter image, upload it to the media and then post the URL of that image here and we can help you. If you place it in #header rather than in the h1 selector, and adjust the height of #header, the #container section which includes the sidebar and the content area should automatically move up.

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  3songsbonn · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 3:15 pm

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  I’ve tried this out with my current logo as a test and yes, it has moved the background up as I wanted.
  Unfortunately though the blog name logo ‘3SONGSBONN’ (the one that generated automatically when I named the blog) does not move up with the background so it then gets in the way of the posts. I assume I need to move this up somehow also or alternatively I could remove it entirely and just attach the blog homepage url to the jpeg image? Either way I need to locate the ‘3SONGSBONN’ clickable logo link in the CSS. What do you recommend?

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  designsimply · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 4:36 pm

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  The ‘3SONGSBONN’ site title looks like a text link to me right now, and it’s targeted with this selector:
  #header h1 a

  I also looked at http://3songsbonn.com/ and the ‘3SONGSBONN’ text doesn’t get in the way of the posts from what I can see. Did you already fix it?

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  3songsbonn · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 6:02 pm

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  Thanks for the help designsimply. Actually I hadn’t changed the header since my original query. I had just done some tests with what Sacredpath suggested whilst at work without saving. Now I’m back home I can do a replacement JPG and see what happens.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 6:17 pm

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  The title can be repositioned anywhere you want it.

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  designsimply · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 6:17 pm

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  Let us know how it goes. :)

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  3songsbonn · Member · Jan 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm

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  Okay, thanks to you guys I’ve got it sorted.
  Many thanks, Your help is really much appreciated!

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  designsimply · Member · Jan 24, 2012 at 6:27 pm

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  I like that you kept it text. Looks nice.