The theme on this site is currently a modified version of the Spring Blossom theme put together by agodlymaiden. I like agodlymaiden’s design, but since it didn’t reflect me and my life, I did a little tweaking.
The first step was to find one of my own images that I wanted to use in place of the one agodlymaiden had used. I picked an image of a redbud tree branch that I took a month or so ago and sized it up in Photoshop so it matched the original header in size. I went into my FTP program, renamed the old header file and uploaded the new. Step one was done.
The next step was modifying the style sheet so the text in the header worked with the picture I now had. I changed the text to white and then experimented to determine how far it needed to move down from the top of the image to be readable. There’s nothing more more annoying than not being able to read text because it doesn’t have enough contrast between the background and the lettering .
I have something I can live with for the moment. Once I get done reorganizing all the blog posts into their appropriate main categories, I’ll move into the next phase of the site redesign. The next phase will involve modifying things a little more so that the categories are driving force behind what appears in the bar in the header. That will be an interesting challenge because I’m not sure how all the different parts of the template go together and I know next-to-nothing about PHP. That being said, I know enough to be dangerous.
Thank goodness I have a copy of the original theme backed up. That way if I mess things up too badly, I can start over.
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