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Best of luck!

I have somewhat of a commitment to get this site up sometime in November. One of the options that I am considering is upload at least the child theme files and the photographs, etc, to my online site. Can I do this? If not do you have some other suggestions.

Terry J. Migliorino

Unfortunately, you will need to purchase the VideoPress upgrade to host the videos on your blog.

It's free to embed videos hosted on other websites, so you might consider uploading your videos to either YouTube or Vimeo and embedding them that way.

Thank you!

Best wishes for getting the help you need there. :)

Indeed. There is no help there - that's why I'm grasping at straws over here.

The two run on different software and the theme versions are coded differently.

Got it. Thanks.

I'm using this theme on wordpress.org - would that make any difference?

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Best wishes for getting the help you need there. :)

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That's the result of clicking your username. Will you please provide an active link starting with http:// to the blog you are attempting to edit the CSS on?

The code I see in my Stylesheet is this:

/* =Menu
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

#access {
background: #222; /* Show a solid color for older browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(#D7D3D3, #0a0a0a);
background: -o-linear-gradient(#252525, #0a0a0a);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#252525), to(#0a0a0a)); /* older webkit syntax */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#222, #0a0a0a);
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 2px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 2px;
box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 2px;
clear: both;
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 0 auto 6px;
width: 100%;
}

I've tried changing the color code on this:

#access {
background: #222;

But nothing changes.

Can anyone help??

NB I'm using this theme on wordpress.org - would that make any difference?

Grateful for any tips.

Thanks!

Alda

If anyone can't see the email part just keep going. It is a tabbed choice at the end AFTER you have entered everything else.

Is this because it is paypal.com/ie perhaps?

I only have the option to create a donate button.

1) Yes, sidebar images were too many; but I saw you took care of that.
2) In theory, you can add as many images as you like to a slideshow.
3) I answered the "KEY" question before you asked it - see above!

that's it I promise (for now)

seriously, thanks for the advice mate

Now, GIFs resized or cropped lose the animation - that's why I said make sure all the images are in the right size for Structure (960×120 px). If by "specific post" you mean set the GIF as a featured image, so that it'll show up on the front page, it can't be done: the cropper crops the image even if it's in the right dimensions. If you mean insert it as a regular image, so that you'll see it when you view that complete post alone, again you can't use the same one you'll have created for the header, as the main column is narrower: you'll need to create smaller versions of the images (maximum width 640 px), turn those into a new animated GIF, and upload and insert that GIF (selecting the Full Size option). Or you can simply upload all the original images to the post (without inserting them) and turn them into a real slideshow:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/slideshows/

By the way, your blog takes too long to load; check the first two replies here please:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/more-blog-post-visible-at-the-same-time?replies=4

- plus I'm a dunce at that sort of thing - but I would like to give it a try

But micah's suggestion is for displaying a different header image on each one of your static pages. I thought you asked about a slideshow-style header image for your blog in general.