How do I add a banner?

[allyndra]

Oh, wise and knowledgeable flist, share with me the ways of the livejournal. Everbody has such pretty banners, and I want one, too. But I have no idea how to add one, and if it tells me how on th FAQs, I managed to miss it. Do you have to have a certain layout? I've found a couple banners I might want to snag, should I figure this out.

So, help me, flist. You're my only hope.

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[xanzpet.livejournal.com]

Do you know what layout you're currently using, and have you uploaded the banner you want to use to something like Photobucket?

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

The layout I'm using is called Bryant and also says "bloggish" by Lilia Ahner. I haven't uploaded them to Photobucket, but I would before using.

[xanzpet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad you got it to work! Love it! Sorry I couldn't be more help to you, but I had to run out and do my parents' federal and state income taxes. I'm glad you found someone who could help! w00t!

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[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Cut and pasted from my friend's instructions:

I run my journal through Smooth Sailing, which I find it the easiest one to navigate and customise. Go to JOURNAL, then CUSTOMISE JOURNAL. You'll then get a page where the middle section gives you lots of different styles for your journal. Pick a style that has similar colours to the header, then apply it. Now, you choose a page set up.

Go back up to the top of this page and you'll see a box in the top right hand corner where there is an option to Customise Journal Theme. Click on that. You'll get a page with a whole bunch of options in a side bar on the right hand side. One of them will be titled Custom CSS. Click on it. You'll now get a page where there are several boxes, one of which is very large. In that box, you need to write:


.pageheaderblock {
background-image: url("http://www.example.com/image.jpg");
background-position: top center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-top: 150px;
}

You will need to replace the URL address in brackets with the actual URL of your image (upload it to Photobucket or a similar remote-loading website). You will also need to replace the number 150 with the height of your image in pixels, plus any additional space you might want.

If you don't want the image in the middle, you can align it to either side of your journal by replacing the word "center" above with either " left" or "right".

Click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page to apply the customizations to your journal. And hey presto, that's it! I have lots of different customisations on my journal, because I'm a bit nosy when it comes to CSS (that's why I have different text for things, plus colours that match exactly and a blue tint), but it's something of a learning curve and I wouldn't advise making too many changes at first.


Thats how i made the Entourage ficathon com look pretteh

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[allyndra.livejournal.com]

I used this and put up a banner. I feel so lj-savvy now! Thank you!

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[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

PRETTY!

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[allyndra.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Now I'm going to be as obsessed with finding banners as I am with finding icons. :o)