Hi Ryan,
I’m trying to do the same thing. I got pretty far by doing the following:
Adjusting the top margin of the carousel using this CSS (in my Child Theme!):
.carousel-inner {
margin-top: -10%;
z-index:-1;
}
Making the header transparent and getting rid of the line at top (if you wish) and assigning it a z-index of 200:
.home .tcheader {
background-color: transparent;
border-top: none;
border-bottom: none;
z-index: 200;
}
(Notice I used .home – that is because I still wanted the gray line under the header on my interior pages)
I also moved the nav menu and got rid of the tagline like this (you might not want this in yours if you want your menu centered – there is a Snippet in the theme documentation for centering the navigation, I wanted mine to float right):
/* Remove the Tagline */
.navbar-wrapper .navbar h2 {
display: none;
}
/*move navbar up a bit*/
.navbar-wrapper {
margin-top: -20px;
}
/*float nav bar right*/
.navbar .nav {
float:right;
}
Also got rid of the navbar box:
/* Remove Navbar box */
.navbar .navbar-inner {
-webkit-box-shadow: none;
-moz-box-shadow: none;
box-shadow: none;
background: none;
-webkit-box-shadow: none;
-moz-box-shadow: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
So everything looks pretty good (have not figured out how to add the transparent box behind menu items yet)
. . . EXCEPT when I start resizing my screen. The nav bar is wrapping wrong. I think this is a media query thing and I need to dig into those but if anyone has already invented that wheel I’d love to hear about it!
I also tried rehooking the slideshow to the very top of the page (there is a snippet on the site documentation for this too) but that pushed the logo and nav bar under the slider , so not so helpful for what we are trying to do. I decided to go back to the negative top margin method…
Help welcome…