Need help with banner / footer

[bjorkk]

Hi I need help putting a custom header on serendipity. I have very little knowledge of php. I want the blog to look similar to my website with links, etc. I was able to embed a footer into my forum program but there was a header file, in which was all I needed to edit. If anyone could let me know in layman's terms, I would deeply appreciate it!!!!!

Thank you

[Jeffrey35]

Hey,

You can edit such things in the index.tpl file / style.css file in your templatefolder (at least with the tempate i'm using, Bex-01).

Good Luck,
Jeffrey

[bjorkk]

I copied and pasted the code for the header I wanted to put on but when I uploaded it the header was not shown? Any advice? I edited the .tpl folder

[yellowled]

I copied and pasted the code for the header I wanted to put on but when I uploaded it the header was not shown? Any advice? I edited the .tpl folder

I'm sorry, but that's simply too little information to really help you. We at least need to know which template and which version of Serendipity you're using. Code examples (i.e. your changes to the .tpl/.css files) would be even better, and an URL to see your template in action would really help.

YL

[Davy]

There is a plugin for changing header-images, isn't it? Maybe that's a bit easier.

Also note that PHP-code is not allowed in template-files normally. You've to insert such code using Smarty-tags.

[bjorkk]

I edited the index.tpl file. the url to the blog is http://www.whatshoppin.com/serendipity/ I want to add the top images and links from www.whatshoppin.com to the blog. I am sorry, but I really am clueless. I hope this is a little more info

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Why not just edit the index.tpl template file and insert HTML-code that you need?

What exactly did you try to insert there? Something like this:

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<a href="http://www.google.de/"><img src="http://www.googgle.de/intl/en_com/images/logo_plain.png" /></a>

should already work.

HTH,
Garvin