Comments on: Modifying the Blix Krieg Theme Header

By: DuckMan

DuckMan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:28:17 +0000

Hi Susie -

I love your enthusiasm!

Unfortunately I don’t have time to go into the specifics, but this kind of thing usually occurs when either a) an element you have added is wider than the component of the theme that you have added it to (most likely) or b) Weird positoning of div tags.

These are all pretty common problems with theme modification, but can be really difficult to debug via email, so unfortunately that’s about as far as I’ll be able to take my assistance to you - perhaps one of our other readers might have suggestions?

Can I suggest some google searches?

for instance, “How do I add google search bar to Blix Theme”, “How can I customize Blix Theme” etc - you might find more how-to’s like I wrote yesterday for you.

If you had an accident with the theme, you can always install two copies of it (under different folders] names, and change the name of the second one in style.css so it shows as a different theme in the presentation tab)… that way if you muck up une, you can quickly roll back to another.

Perhaps when you sort out your customizations you can come back here and blog about it!

Cheers,

TheDuck

By: Susie J

Susie J — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:40:14 +0000

Thanks — everything looks great.

By: DuckMan

DuckMan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:21:59 +0000

Ok.. I think I’ve confused you. If you want to better understand what the problem is, google ‘php and relative versus absolute referencing’ - you should learn a bit there.

START AGAIN… Follow these steps.

Using filezilla, put the susiejblx_bg.jpg in your wp-content/themes/{my blixkgrieg theme}/images/spring_flavour/ folder - that’s where all the images for the theme live and it makes more sense to put new images there.. if you don’t see other files in that folder by the names of author.gif, header_bg.jpg and about a dozen others, you’re in the wrong folder.
open wp-content/themes/{my blixkgrieg theme}/spring_flavour.css (the same one you’ve been editing today) and edit those same lines as follows:-
/* header
————————————————–*/
#header {
background-color:#F0F9F9;
background-image:url(images/spring_flavour/susiejblx_bg.jpg );
}

Now it should work..

Cheers,

TheDuck

By: Susie J

Susie J — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:03:28 +0000

I’ve fixed the layout and the spring flavour css. So it now looks like this: #header {
background-color:#ffffff;
background-image:url(a/susiejblx_bg.jpg);
}
And, it is still not there. I must have copied something incorrectly?
Thanks,

By: Susie J

Susie J — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:55:14 +0000

OK, first of all, I love you. I have been working for hours and hours to
fix what the wordpress support people called a “train wreck” on my blog.
This is an awesome theme, and you are great to work with — I’ve been
reading your comments.

I followed your first step, and it looks like this
/* header
————————————————–*/
#header {
background-color:#F0F9F9;
background-image:url( ); }

Still, the image is not showing up — and then I opened the read me file,
and it says “If your custom banner already include’s your blog’s name, open
layout.css, go to line 146 and remove the comments (/* … */)”

I couldn’t find that line. And do I need to replace it with something?