Can anyone help with a layout?

[sharpiefan]

Or point me in the direction of some help, please?

I want to insert a banner into my journal, which ought to be easy (paste the URL into the Header Banner Image box when customizing my style). Only I find that the header text - journal title, subtitle etc. end up going across the banner if I do it that way, which spoils the banner and makes the text hard to read.

Does anyone know how to move journal content down if I insert the banner URL into the Background Image box instead? I'm willing to use either Modular or Drifting layouts, whichever is easier as regards playing with the CSS.

It's a pretty big banner, that I've used for years over at LJ because I love it - it's 840x250px.

I have very little in the way of coding/HTML skills or I would have brought my Flexible Squares layout with me. (I was following the tutorial but could only get the default grey to show up; there seems to be some problem when I try to put my own CSS code in from LJ.)

Or, failing that, is there any way to move the journal title/subtitle/Latest Entries text down so I can have it underneath the banner instead of over to one side of it and running over it?

Previous entries link

[mmeg]

Is there a way to add the "previous 5" (or 10 or whatever) link to the navigation bar at the top of my recent entries, reading and network pages? I'm using Mixit, which I believe is a Core1 LJ style.

ETA: Also I figured out how to reverse the order of the entries on my reading page (for values of figured out which equal bugging the Support people), but it didn't reverse the order of my Page Summary. I wonder if there's a way to do that. (I care about this much less than the first question.)

Using tinyicons

[queenofspades]

I was wondering how one would code tinyicons into their layout, instead of using the default ones? I use tinyicons for the journal and community userheads, journal security, openid, and for the track, screen, freeze, and delete buttons. I know another user briefly mentioned how to do this somewhere, but I couldn't figure out how to actually implement it into my custom CSS. I'm using the flexible squares layer, if that's relevant.