Where do I look?

[capybara_cafe]

Hello everyone,

I am currently using the "Nevermore" theme, based on "Funky Circles", and I have a few questions.

Here's what I would like to do: I have added a header via the "customize" boxes, but my header refuses to budge from the upper right hand corner.

Also, my background doesn't start till after the bottom of the header, so obviously I need to add the header in the code itself, and not to the customization boxes. But I have no idea how to get in to the guts of my theme. Not a clue where to look for it.

When I look under my layers, I see the customizations made via the wizard, and also the previous layout that I originally installed. When I click on custom css, I get a blank box. When I click on customize, I just go back to the wizard area. HOW do I find the code for my current style? I'm sure this is something totally obvious, and I'm just being thick, but I'm beating my head against the wall at this point, lol.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give a clueless DW newb!

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

You can find the code from the base style and color theme at http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layerbrowse.

As for your question, where do you want your header to be horizontally positioned exactly? I had to get tricky with the original style in order to give a 3D vibe so the header background is actually repeated three times, in different positions, which are hardcoded for the most part.

[capybara_cafe]

Thank you! I couldn't find it anywhere. I'm just looking for a horizontal center, nothing fancy, but it seems to be well stuck - even selecting left as the setting for it didn't move it from the far right corner.. Apparently it's happy there ;)

[ninetydegrees]

Yes but where horizontally? Should it be above the header? Below the header? Inside the header/title/subtitle?

[capybara_cafe]

Oh, sorry! I'd like it to be inside the header/title area.

[ninetydegrees]

This worked for me:

Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options / Custom CSS / the big box and type:

#header #title {
background-image: url(Enter your image URL here);
background-position: 50% 10px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-top: 400px;
}

The padding value should be the height of your header image plus some pixels for spacing.

[capybara_cafe]

Ahhh, thank you so much! I had tried it yesterday evening, and couldn't figure out why my fix didn't override - I was missing a bit of the code.
Thanks so much for your help :)

[ninetydegrees]

You're most welcome!