This is the Designer Colors theme from Charlie Lockhart at Blueballdesign.

NOTE: This theme was updated in Summer of 2009. Charlie sent out Designer Colors 4 and it has a new width option. This tutorial is for the updated theme.

I got my inspiration for the Bannerzest banner I've used on this theme from one of the stock images. There is a beautiful sunset picture in the theme and I added additional sunset images for the banner. As is our goal, I made the theme's static image, the sunset, Custom_Img05, the first picture in my banner so there is a seamless transition between static and animated display.

Make your banner the same dimensions as the theme's stock images, 589 px wide X 171 px tall if you are using the standard (narrow) width page.

Make your banner 809 px wide X 171 px tall if you are using the wide page option.

Publish the site and reveal the HTML
Publish


Publish the Bannerzest theme to its place on your server and select "Show HTML" (see Publish at right)




Copy Bannerzest's code to the clipboard
Copy

When you click this button, you'll be presented with another window (see Copy at right)






Use Textwrangler to open index.html
TextWrangler

Now we have the necessary code copied to our clipboard. The final step is to open the theme's index.html file with the text editor you've selected and paste the code in the correct location. To open this file, right click the theme in Rapidweaver's theme drawer, choose "Reveal Theme Contents In Finder...". This will present you with a folder called "Contents". Open it and you will find the index.html file. Right click on this file and navigate to your chosen text editor application. In this example I chose TextWrangler. (see Textwrangler at right)



paste code here
Paste here


Scroll through the code until you find a place that matches that shown in the photo (see Paste here at right) The code you copied from Bannerzest is still on your clipboard. You want to paste it in the right spot. Find the div with the id of content-logo. Place your cursor right after the div and paste in the code from Bannerzest by either choosing edit>Paste from TextWrangler's menu or simply by pressing the Apple-v key combination (command-v). Now that your code is inserted, save the file and view the results.

Remember, when you use this technique and publish your site, send me a link so I can put your site in the showcase!

This one was a very easy modification!