I Fell from the Moon

It's quite simple to change your blog banner with most of the blog themes available. Sleek Shady Beta is no exception.

The default banners are 920 pixels horizontally and 170 pixels vertically. You should scale and crop the image you want to use as a banner to that size. You can make a smaller banner too if you want to. In my case, I made a transparent GIF image of Dr. Launch, drawn by Freek Zijlmans and used really simple CSS to put it in front of the default banner. The advantage of my method is that you can change your theme as much as you want and your banner will still look like it should.

So how do you change your banner image? By editing the custom stylesheet for your account. The custom stylesheet editor can be found by following these instructions:

• Go to your account
  
• Click Design in the ACCOUNT NAVIGATION sidebar
  
• Click the custom stylesheet link from the line below the Select a design text
  

You're now looking at the custom stylesheet editor. You're supposed to add CSS code to it to make modifications to your blog design. So how do you add a banner image of the size 920 x 170 to your design? By adding the following code to your custom stylesheet:

#top2 {
background:url(http://yourwebsite.com/yourdirectory/yourbanner.png);
}

Change the address in the code to the address to your banner image. This only works properly if your background image is 920 x 170.

But if you'd like to do something a bit more advanced, like I did with my banner image, you can do so too:

#top2 {
background-image:url(http://yourwebsite.com/yourdirectory/yourimage.gif);
background-position:bottom right;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}

Change the address seen in the code to the address of your transparent GIF image. It will appear in the bottom right part of your banner. And it's not repeated. If you'd like to change the place the banner appears, you can change the background-position value. There are some other positions you can use for the background image. Here's a list of the basic ones:

• top left
  
• top center
  
• top right
  
• center left
  
• center center
  
• center right
  
• bottom left
  
• bottom center
  
• bottom right
  

Change bottom right in my example to the preferred position from the list. You can also position the background image in a specific location. You can read more here.

If you need more help adding a banner to your blog, please leave a comment below.

Copyrights

The Dr. Launch cartoon character is a trademark of and a copyright of DrLaunch.
The image used in this blog post is a copyright of Freek Zijlmans and DrLaunch.

OK. Seems like my links section is somewhat stable again. The problem is still there in the server, and as you can see, the server monkeys are really pleased with themselves.
I enabled the links in the sidebar and we'll just have to hope the monkeys aren't going to do more mischief in a while.

Credits

Image: Smirk
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0: Flickr user shawnbot.

I started a new My Opera group with a lolcat blog. Come on over an join to post your own images with funny captions.

We all know that Opera is a kind of music. But music might not be the thing you think about when you use the Opera browser.

I'm going to change that. Opera is perfect together with your media player of choice and My Opera. Have a look at this screen recording:



This was all done without any extensions to Opera. All you need to do is to enable your links panel (Ctrl + Shift + 9) and set the URL of MP3 files to be sent automatically to your media player of choice with the download preferences. I know it works well with Winamp.

To find MP3 files easily in a page, type 'mp3' in the quick find field in the links panel. To select several files, click the first MP3 in the list, hold down shift, and click the last MP3. Press return to send their addresses to Winamp. A new playlist is automatically generated from the URLs sent to Winamp.

You can switch tracks in Winamp faster by setting some global hotkeys for it in the Winamp preferences.

The video shows me browsing Zenya's blog.

My evening light album just got featured on the front page.

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the album. And thanks for making it appear on the front page!

I'll try to bring you another good album soon!