How to Customize a Header:
Step 1: Go to your web browser and type in http://www.wordpress.com/
Step 2: To start an account, look at the right of the screen and look downward until you see the
orange “Sign up now” button under WordPress’ search bar and “Express yourself. Start a Blog” or,
if you have an account already you can sign in at the top left of the screen by typing in your
“Username” and “Password”.
Step 3: Go to the second tab on the top left of the page called “My Dashboard” which is to the right of
“My Account”
Step 4: At the top left of your screen under (username’s) Blog you will see a tab that says
“Dashboard” under dashboard you will see “upgrades”, then a tab called “posts”. Then “Media”
keep looking down and you will see “Links”, “Pages”, “Comments”, “Ratings”, “Polls” and then the
ninth tab will be “appearance”.
Step 5: Click the arrow to the right of “appearance” it will open up a number of neat options.
Step 6: Look at the options, you will see “Theme”, “Widgets, “Extras”, “Custom Header” and “Edit CSS”
You will want to click the fourth option, “Custom Header”
Step 7: You can choose many different options to customize your header like “Hide Text”
which will hide your Header’s Text. “Select a Text Color” Which will change the color of
your header. “Use Original Color” which will set your text’s color to default. and “Save Changes”
which will save any and all changes you’ve made to your header. Have fun messing with them.
Step 8: You can also Upload a “New Header Image”. Press the “Browse” button under the
“New Header Image” to choose an image that is saved on your computer.
Step 9: Now you will be asked to select a section of the image to put on your header. Choose
whichever section you find suitable and click “Crop Image” to save it to your account.
Congratulations you have a new header image!!
Step 10: You may restore your header to its default state by selecting “restore header” under
“Select Header Image”
There’s your custom header!!!! Good luck and have fun.
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