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First and foremost, when working with any edits in your profile, use the Firefox browser, grab the Firebug plugin, and then change properties on the fly to see how your site could look before you make permanent changes. It will save you a lot of time.

Post all of your tips here for changing the Banner, whether it be adding background graphics, changing text colors, whatever.

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Have a logo that you want to be at the top of your profile page, or a custom banner? You can just hide the text for the site on your own personal page, as of right now, I don't see a problem in doing that.

If you use Firebug you can see the id's you need to modify. Id's are signaled by a # sign.

The two id's are paragraph tags, which are block level elements, which means you can hide them with the display:none; attribute value pair.

So you can add this to your custom stylesheet;

#xg_sitename, #xg_sitedesc{
display:none;
}

Your masthead may shrink, so you'll need to play with this.

If you can, just use padding on the top and bottom to achieve the height.

#xg_masthead{
padding:40px 0;
}

Or just set your banner to a fixed height.

#xg_masthead{
height:200px;
}

This may or may not may your navigation render a little bit different. Test to taste.

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Thanks Jeff, I will try this when I get home tonight.

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Keep me posted.

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That was easy. It shortened the picture area by a very small amount, if I wasn't watching it when it changed, I would have never noticed it. Thanks for the help.

You were right about firebug, great tool.

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Just remember....when using - Display:none; that the physically defined space for that block level element will be removed, so anything stacked below it will move also. You may need to set a physical height on some elements, or add extra padding to position them correctly as a result.

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