The theme I am using on my blog right now is free. Since it is free, it means that I have to customize it myself. I didn’t like how the header was looking because it had my blog tagline, make money online, overlapping with my blog title.

I had to change it for 2 reasons. I didn’t like it and I had to brand myself.  I couldn’t figure out how to change, but a wordpress designer told me what I should do.

How Can You Change Your Blog Header

You need to look at the source code of your blog from your browser. You have to go to your homepage. Right click on any place on the screen (not on any link). Go to View Page Source. When the source code opens, hold Ctrl + F. This will bring the find box. You want to look for the location of the header code. In the find box, type in body. It would take you to the body code i.e. <body>

The next line in the body area is the header. In my case, it was

<div id="ja-mainwrapper">

I downloaded my theme to my pc. I went to the images folder (…../theme/images). I looked for the word “mainwrapper”. I noticed on an image that had a blue background like my header and it was called main wrap. So I decided to rename my new header image as main wrap and deleted the old image. I uploaded the theme back to my wordpress.

Then I went to my header.php. I commented out the title and the tagline. I did this by using  <!–   –>. The space in between the dashes is where the text I want to comment goes into.

 

The recommended blogging platform depends on what you want. There are many different blogging platform that you use to blog. It depends on you, the webmaster to choose what best fits your need. There is a list of weblogs at wikipedia. Amond all the blogging platform, some platform needs you to download and install, some are open source and free, some are proprietary software that may be licensed for a fee or have versions available free of charge.

From the choice of platform of the top 100 blogs in 2008, you will see that WordPress is the most used platform. Not only with the A-list bloggers, wordpress is the most used platform in the blogosphere.

Why does the A-list bloggers use their platform. I don’t know why, but I can speak from my experience with blogger, wordpress, wordpress.org.

1. Blogger :- This is a free blogging service owned by Google. It is easy to use. This is the recommended blogging platform to start with. Most bloggers strat with this one to get a feel of how to blog on a software. But it has its disadvantages. It doesn’t allow you to customize your blog. Register with Blogger.

2. WordPress :- This is a free open source platform that needs to be hosted on your server. At first, it seems complicated to use, but gradually it would become easy. WordPress allows you to do anything you want. You can customize it to your taste. The only disadvantage is that it needs costant update to keep up with security issues. Download and install WordPress

3. WordPress.com :- This is the free version of wordpress.org. It is updated constantly by the wordpress team. The only disadvantage is that it doesn’t allow Javascript code. You need javascript code to run adsense, analytics, and some affiliate links. Get wordpress.com blog.

I recommend using hosted wordpress if you can afford a webhost. I just only have to update it. But for beginners, blogger is recommended to get a feel of blogging water.

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