Help, please!

[aunt_zelda]

Ok, I got a banner for winning third place in heroes_contest... does anyone know how I can put it at the heading of my journal? Or do I need a paid account for that?

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[antinous-wild.livejournal.com]

You mean as a header? Or as a "sticky" post -- one that's always at the top of your page?

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it's called ... but right now I've got colorful type-keys, and I was wondering how I'd replace that with, say, the banner I won.

[antinous-wild.livejournal.com]

Okay, that would be a header. I'm not sure how well I'll be able to explain this (it's one of those things I've just sort of fiddled with until I figured it out), but I'll give it a shot.

You have a couple of options:

1. You'll need to choose one of the LJ preset themes that allows you to use a header. I'm not sure which of these layouts would allow for that, so you may just have to look around and find out. Then, it should be as easy as uploading the image to an image host and sticking the url into the right spot in the "Customize Selected Theme" section.

2. Find a layout override from a community like premade_ljs, paintedlayouts, or thefulcrum. Not all of these allow you to put your own header in, but many do. Then, following the instructions they have on their page (and be sure to read the FAQs and so forth), change your layout and in a section at the bottom of the CSS code replace the image URL with the URL of the image you want.

LIKE THIS:

.headerimage {
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
background-image: url('YOUR LINK');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

Change the width & height to the correct size, upload your header somewhere, and paste the direct link where is says YOUR LINK.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

About the first option ... how do you find out if you can use a header? I looked, really, I did, but I didn't see something that said 'add header' or 'you cannot add a header' ...

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Sorry, scratch that, I can't make the picture big enough. Thank you very much for all your help, though! Someday I might attempt that again ...