Beginners questions

[voelspriet]

1. Serendipity in the root of the site
Out of the box, Serendipity installs in www.xxxx.xxx/serendipity. I want to have it on my homepage, i.e. www.searchbistro.com What do I change (and where) to fix this?

2. Changing logo
Can I replace the text header by a image?

[garvinhicking]

1. Either reinstall serendipity into the root of the site. Or your a .htaccess forward mechanism. Please check/search the forums, it has often been addressed.

2. Yes you can do that. Either edit the index.tpl file of the template or just upload a different image in place. Of course it would help if you tell which template you are using

Regards,
Garvin

[voelspriet]

I'm using Blue. I'm not a CSS guru, can you tell me what to do step by step? Check www.searchbistro.com/serendipity I want the text

Search Bistro
Only the Finest Search News

in the grey box to be replaced by a JPG. How do I go on ?

[garvinhicking]

Sure:

1. Copy the file "index.tpl" from templates/default/ to templates/blue/

2. Edit the file index.tpl.

3. Search the part

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<div id="serendipity_banner">
    <h1><a class="homelink1" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle}</a></h1>
    <h2><a class="homelink2" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$head_subtitle|@default:$blogDescription}</a></h2>
</div>

4. Replace that with:

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<div id="serendipity_banner">
  <a href="{$serendipityBaseURL}"><img src="/path/to/your/image.png" /></a>
</div>

5. Save the file.

6. Reload your blog and be happy *g*

Hope that helps, if not just ask for more :-)

HTH,
Garvin