Blix Header Title

  • Jenns

    (@jenns)


    20 years, 6 months ago

    Hello~ After installing WordPress three days ago, I’ve been exploring its options and the templates available. I must say, I’m really impressed with everything so far!

    The Blix template on display seemed really appealing, so I decided to give it a go. Being a complete newbie, I was just patting myself on the back for having customized the colours and sidebar without too much headache when lo and behold, I ran across a problem…eheh…

    I’ve managed to change the header image, but can’t seem to remove the header title. From what I’ve been able to gather from reading the support forums, it seems the Blix theme is somewhat special. I don’t want to delete or add anything that might damage the design beyond repair, especially since I don’t understand what I’m doing. I tried deleting the comments in line 146 of layout.css like the Blix help page indicated, but that didn’t work. Is there something else I have to delete/change?

    Thanks for reading this~

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  • Kate

    (@katie1)

    20 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Jenns

    I’ve used Blix in the past, before I made my own template which I’m now using. When I first joined the WordPress community, I thought it was best to use someone else’s template so I could find my feet and, it enable me to play with the template structure to see how things worked.

    It’s the only way in which to learn, I think. Consider your first template to be a playground for learning – I daresay you’ll end up changing your theme altogether once you get the hang of things.

    I found Blix to be easy to modify, providing one knew exactly what they were doing. Colors and such are pretty standard changes, but modifications to actual templates can become tricky because the author uses a “special” BX_Function to gather information – plus I didn’t have a clue as to what php was all about.

    I also found the layout & spring_flavour.css to be long winded and all over the place, so in the end I copied and pasted everything into one css.css file so the elements were marginally easier to locate and change. (That’s NOT including the style.css, which calls both those css.css files into action via @import function 🙂 )

    I recommend that you make a backup copy of all files, including css.css files and put them in a safe place. That way, if you accidently delete something that wasn’t suspose to be deleted, you can go back to the original file and copy the information back into your working templates.

    I have since changed my template – there are a couple of little things about Blix that I don’t like – ie: ALL Page categories automatically get rendered in the horizontal navigation bar, unless you specify otherwise. It can be a pain in the butt, especially if you have lots of pages. Naturlly there are ways around this…:)

    This link is to a tutorial that will explain how to remove the h1 tag line from your header, among other things I recommend that you read it, as well as the Codex files. here

    Codex
    Wiki are good places to start and learn.

    Post back if you encounter any more problems. And, Welcome to WordPress!

    Kate

    Thread Starter Jenns

    (@jenns)

    20 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Kate! Thanks for your thoughtful comments and for taking the time to type them out! =D I’m afraid I was in the middle of studying for finals when I started this thread and so had to put it on the backburner for a bit.

    Having just finished (yay!), I looked through the site you recommended, but couldn’t find the lines in the Blix theme that the page indicated I should modify. So I just went into the header template and mucked about with the code based on…intuition… >_< But it seems to have worked because the header’s fine now. Got the text link off, although the header image no longer acts as a link back to the homepage, but that’s all right. =)

    Like you suggested, I made sure to backup any file I intended on modifying. Everything seems to be in working order, although I do have to wonder why “alt” doesn’t seem to work in links. o__o;; Do you know if this is a Blix thing?

    Also, thanks very much for the warm welcome! =D

    P.S. The template you’re testing looks great! I really like the open quality of the scheme. =)

    Kate

    (@katie1)

    20 years, 6 months ago

    Sorry for the delay…

    Alt should work on any link – its not a specific theme thing. Double check that you’re closing off your alt tag ie: alt=”hello! I’m really terribly shy…” /> or, if that doesn’t work try:

    title=”Jenns fabulous blog!” />

    And thanks for the feedback. Just recently I had to delete everything, including templates. I’m only now just starting to put everything back. It’s going to be a very long haul.

    Kate

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