what you’d think would be simple changes – fonts, colours etc

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    jamesterencewatkins · Member ·

    woah triple post. (this might be getting a bit complicated) but is there a way to bypass wordpress’ system for uploading banner images?

    at the moment it’s stretching my existing one…whilst it doesnt look that bad i wouldnt mind being able to lay a properly sized one in there….

    is there a way to reference an image i upload online for the banner to locate? or something similar.

    thanks in advance…css wizards.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    If you have changed the width of your theme through CSS, then you cannot use the header uploader feature as it will always work to the original header size.

    First, go to appearance > header and click the “remove header” button and then click save changes.

    Create your header image to the exact size needed and upload that image to your media library. Get the URL of that header image and the put it into the CSS directly.

    #branding img {
background: url("URL_of_new_header") repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
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    jamesterencewatkins · Member ·

    thanks TSP: i have done said instructions. I didn’t load it into my ‘media library’ though…i just chucked it on my server via ftp and used that url..that should work too right?

    im not sure if this is the reason it wont work, but when i put your code into the css box. it saves, but insists on using ‘ instead of “…. even though im putting in “…

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    …i just chucked it on my server via ftp and used that url..that should work too right?

    Yes, that will work.

    I’m at a loss on the header image. The theme team has set things up so that the header is all taken care of in the markup (XHTML) at appearance > header, which means there really isn’t a place for it in the CSS and I’m at a loss as to how to get it in there. Nothing I try seems to do the trick.

    Perhaps hallluke will drop by with the solution.

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    jamesterencewatkins · Member ·

    perhaps i should just be happy with it as is. if anyone can come up with a solution without too much time or thought, great! otherwise…a slight distortion of my header image isnt the end of the world :D

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    hallluke · Member ·

    You’ve stretched the image by 80 pixels. As mentioned earlier if you modify the width of your theme using the CSS upgrade you’ll need to hide the original header image and add a new one in the CSS if you want it to fit the new width.

    In your case seeing as your image is pretty much all black the method above isn’t needed and you can just set the image back to the right dimension and fill in the gaps with a background colour, here’s the code:

    #branding img {width:940px!important; padding:0 40px; background:#000;}

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    timethief · Member ·

    @jamesterencewatkins
    I just claicked into your blog. Please be aware that IF you have removed your Blog Title from here > Settings > General then your blog will not ne indexed by search engine spiders. The Blog Title must be here > Settings > General if you want the blog content to be indexed by search engine spiders and appear in search engine page results.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    @Luke, thanks. I thought of that last night after going to bed.

    They’ve made it difficult to widen 2010 and put a header into the CSS – if not impossible.

    I might have to complain to the theme team on that.

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