I tried your recommendation to "try now" through the custom design and clicked on CSS, it would not allow me to do anything different than what I can already do.

You also need to enter the CSS example from above into the editor in the Appearance → Themes → Customize → CSS panel and it would let you preview any CSS changes. Did you do that?

Speaking of the banner, if you don't mind giving some advice, how can I keep the banner on the "static page" aka my home page and eliminate it from all the rest of my pages which I am using as tabs. for example if you hit the "Am I an Addict" tab the screen slightly moves bc it is going to a different location but it doesn't look like it actually moved bc the banner is on all the pages, you would have to scroll down the page to see if you have actually navigated away to a different page. how can I eliminate the banner on all pages except my static page/home page?

George

Hello!
I am unable to use the theme Academica exactly as it is displayed.

1. I can't bring it to 3 columns as it is originally.

2. I want to display just the recent post on the front page and the rest as thumbnails as it is in original them.

Thanks.

The version that you install from the dashboard does not have the option for "Featured Content" in the "Reading" menu.

Is there any way to link the version of the theme you are using, Timethief? I can't seem to find a place on the wordpress site to dowload a zip of you version of theme without installing it on a .wordpress blog, which is not what I want to do. I'm trying to upload the theme on an existing URL.

Thanks for your help!

Angrewxcpht responded with this: "It's not really possible to move them below the banner with this particular theme. If you do not like their location in this theme, you could try finding a theme that has them below the banner already, then adding Custom styles to that theme."

I tried doing this "Appearance → Themes → Customize → CSS panel" but I can not find the CSS panel. So perhaps the them I have "Academica" does not support this?

#header {
	position: relative;
}
#main-nav {
	position: absolute;
	bottom: -480px;
}

Featured Content Slider
Special posts deserve a special place. With Academica, every post assigned with a certain tag and given a featured image will be displayed in the Featured Content Slider on the home page of your site. To enable the slider:

1. Navigate to Settings → Reading.
2. Scroll down to the section labeled “Featured Content”.
3. Enter the name of a tag.
4. Click the blue “Save Changes” button at the bottom.

Once you’ve saved your changes, posts marked with this tag will appear in the featured content slider if they have a featured image. The suggested size for featured images is 960 pixels wide and 300 pixels high.

NOTE: Setting a Featured Image
Open the editor of the post or page where you want to display a unique custom header image, and locate the Featured Image module in the bottom right corner under Page Attributes. Click Choose a Featured Image. http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/#setting-a-featured-image

If you don’t see the Featured Image module on your Add New or Edit Post page, please make sure you’ve selected Featured Image in your Screen Options. http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options

If you do not like their location in this theme, you could try finding a theme that has them below the banner already, then adding Custom styles to that theme.

b) To remove the searchbox, paste this in the CSS editor:

#search {
    display: none;
}

I have saved the CSS with a number of variations and no joy.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated.
The site is http://goballard.wordpress.com
Thank

Academica has nine widget areas available which one is problematic for you please?

All along I've been using Google Chrome and I haven't changed my browser settings.

Are you using one of the browsers and versions found here >
http://browsehappy.com ?