Header – add clickable logo to title

Always make a backup copy of your css before you make changes.

Okay… I can’t remember exactly where I got this.  It’s from google and it worked for me.  I’m using a child of the  twenty ten theme.  I’m going through my css and documenting the changes I’ve made.  I’ll do better next time to make sure I credit the original poster.  If you do know the original poster, please leave their url.  I don’t know how to do all the ping back or rss stuff.  Still learning.

Find the following line in the css.  Make sure you’re using your child theme css.

 

/* =Header
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

 

Under this line of code add a couple line breaks and add the following code:

 

/* The main theme structure – reduce top margin to compensate for changes to Header*/
#wrapper {
margin-top: 5px;
}

/* =Header – add clickable logo to title */
#site-title a {
padding: 10px 10px 80px 100px; /* allow space for image */
background: url(images/lukeup-logo-105×105-dark-blue-small-U.png) no-repeat;
}

#header {
padding: 0px 0 0 0;
}
#site-title {
float: left;
font-size: 45px;
line-height: 136px;
margin: 0 0 18px 0;
width: 700px;
}

You will have to remove the exsisting site-title. I had to experiment with the line height and ‘site-title a’ padding.

Good Luck.

Make a Child Theme style.css

Child themes are used to make modifications to a theme you like with out messing up the original files. Also, if the theme is updated, you will not loose your changes.

Under wp-content/themes, make a folder for your child theme. Any name will work. Copy the style.css from the theme that you want to modify. At the top of the css change:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Ten
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar.
Author: the WordPress team
Version: 1.2
License: GNU General Public License
License URI: license.txt
Tags: black, blue, white, two-columns, fixed-width, custom-header, custom-background, threaded-comments, sticky-post, translation-ready, microformats, rtl-language-support, editor-style, custom-menu
*/

To:

/*
Theme Name: Lukeup Child
Theme URI: http: //www.lukeup.com
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten theme
Author: Luke Lukas
Author URI: http://www.lukeup.com/about/
Template: twentyten
Version: 0.1.0
*/

Change the info to your info of course.

Add the following line Under the description:

@import url("../twentyten/style.css");

That’s really all there is to it. You can copy the parent themes images folder to your child themes folder in case you want to modify images.

Good Luck.

Good Neighbor’s Make Good Fences

Have you ever gone out of your way to take care of folks you thought you can trust and you find out that they are the most inconsiderate people you can ever meet and …. they are your neighbors.  Well we have.  It’s unbelievable. 

I started building a fence with a concrete footer and the neighbor, probably thinkin’ he was cute, yelled over to me … Good Fences make Good Neighbors.  I thought to myself … hopefully he’ll appreciate it.  NOT!  So after mixing over 3600 pounds of concrete and building the most beautiful fence I ever built, our hell started.

First off, we knew they were going to build a playhouse for the kids, which is fine, who couldn’t appreciate that.  Well, they put a 2 story play house right next to their fence over looking our back yard.  Who can find a problem with that….. except, we live on a creek lot that eventually runs in to a golf course.  We really loved the trees and the view of no neighbors.  We begged this guy not to build it right next to the fence and offered to build an extension on the fence so that we could keep our privacy.  Incidentally, he has enough property to put the fence in the middle of the yard so it wouldn’t interfere with the neighbor on the north of him and us.  Oh, that would put it right in front of his view to the creek.

This didn’t happen.  This guy is so arrogant, he’s trying to make it out to be our problem.  We need to plant something to get our privacy back, like a bamboo garden, trees or shrubs so that we can get our privacy back.

Another thing, he’s a pilot for some airline.  You know he is better and knows better than the old farmer joe next door.  Bible says ‘Love your neighbor’…  I’m trying my best but it’s very hard Lord.

One last thing, before I open it up to get your stories of hellacious neighbors….  You can’t always judge the character of a person talking to them as you leave the plane or wave to them when your cutting the lawn…. but character makes good neighbors.

Neighbors Fence
Good Neighbors Make Good Fences

 

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