WP-Coda Blue Theme php help

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    Let’s start by saying I’m new at php. I’m using the WP-Coda Blue theme and editing the graphics mostly through a provided .psd file. I want to edit the “about author” text in the footer and also the hyperlinks in the header.

    I thought it would be as simple as replacing the text in the below code:

    <div id="page_footer">
	<h5>about the author</h5>
	<p>The founder of popular webmaster forum MySpacePros.com,
	<a href="https://greg-j.com/">Greg Johnson</a> is a UI Designer and
	Software Developer that focuses on developing web
	applications used by other web masters to monetize their online
	presense. While Doug enjoys his career in web development, his
	career passion is in game design. Doug hopes to publish his first
	game over XBOX Live and Wii Arcade within the next 2 years. If
	you would like to get in touch with Doug or just see what he's
	up to, you can do so by visiting his website: Greg-J.com.</p>
</div>

    But when I do so nothing happens. Tried it in both the wp editor and a text editor uploading it through my ftp.

    The header is also giving me trouble. I’m thinking that I could just replace the hyperlink given in the template with whatever link I want. Obviously not the case because when I do, the link remains the same. Here’s the code for the header:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/script/global.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
	// preload all images found in stylesheet (this preloads the coda popup)
	$.preloadCssImages();
	// coda-blue wordpress gallery magic
	$(".gallery a").fancybox({
		'hideOnContentClick': true
	});
	// header navigation fade-in/fade-out
	$('.fadeThis').append('<span class="hover"></span>').each(function () {
		var $span = $('> span.hover', this).css('opacity', 0);
		$(this).hover(function () {
			$span.stop().fadeTo(250, 1);
		}, function () {
			$span.stop().fadeTo(250, 0);
		});
	});
});

</script>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>

<div id="header">
	<h1><span><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></span></h1>
	<h2><span><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span></h2>
	<ul>
		<li id="go_download"><a class="fadeThis" href="https://bustatheme.com/wordpress/coda-blue/"><strong>Download WP CODA</strong></a></li>
		<li id="go_learn"><a class="fadeThis" href="https://facebook.com"</a></li>
		<li id="go_talk"><a class="fadeThis" href="https://bustatheme.com/wordpress/coda-blue/#comments"><strong>WP CODA Discussion</strong></a></li>
	</ul>
	<div class="popup">
		<p><strong>file:</strong> coda-blue-latest.zip</p>
		<p><strong>version:</strong> 1.0 </p>
		<p><strong>released:</strong> 7/23/08</p>
		<p><strong>uses:</strong> wordpress 2.6+</p>
		<p><br /><strong><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/icons/notes.png" alt="" /> <a href="https://bustatheme.com/wordpress/coda-blue/#notes">release notes</a></strong></p>
	</div>
</div>

<div id="page_header">
	<p>WordPress + jQuery + Better Coda Slider + Bust A Theme = WP CODA</p>
	<p>introducing WP CODA. grow beautiful blogs.</p>
</div>

    Any help on the header or the footer would be appreciated. Just getting started with this and I wish I could just get something to change.

    Thanks,

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  • Thread Starter iknowman

    (@iknowman)

    To assist those helping, this is the code in the header I’m looking to change. 

    <div id="header">
	<h1><span><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></span></h1>
	<h2><span><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span></h2>
	<ul>
		<li id="go_download"><a class="fadeThis" href="https://bustatheme.com/wordpress/coda-blue/"><strong>Download WP CODA</strong></a></li>
		<li id="go_learn"><a class="fadeThis" href="https://facebook.com"</a></li>
		<li id="go_talk"><a class="fadeThis" href="https://bustatheme.com/wordpress/coda-blue/#comments"><strong>WP CODA Discussion</strong></a></li>

    You can see I’ve tried to change the second link to facebook but it was unsuccessful. It just stayed with the same link.

    Those are images in the wp-coda theme I am using. The text is probably only there for semantics.

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