Hi
As far as your header… The least fuss way to do it is this. (I assume you want to remove the search box)
in your style.css file in your theme folder:
1) find this on line 39
#header #search_menu {
height:90px;
}
change it to this:
#header #search_menu {
display:none;
height:90px;
}
That removes the search box from the display
2) Add the header image you want as a background image. put it in the images folder within your theme folder.
find this on line 28 in your css
#header {
border-bottom:1px solid #999999;
height:108px;
padding:1.5em 0 0;
}
add one line, as below
#header {
background: url(images/[header_file_name here].jpg) no-repeat top right;
border-bottom:1px solid #999999;
height:108px;
padding:1.5em 0 0;
}
if your file is a gif file or a png file then use gif or png instead of jpg
you may have to fiddle with it to get the image adjusted exactly as you need it. If your image is taller than the height of the header space you can adjust that height in your CSS by changing this on line 28
#header {
border-bottom:1px solid #999999;
height:108px;
padding:1.5em 0 0;
}
adjust 108px to whatever you need it to be.
As far as Google Gears, the purpose of that is to speed up how long it takes for the admin files to load, nothing else. If you feel its interrupting your page display, you can remove it from your site by going to the Firefox Tools menu (I assume you are using Firefox…) and selecting the Google Gears option and turning it off for your domain. You can always install it again later.
