how to add a logo to wordpress theme

As you can can see, I am still in the process of setting up my blog.  Yesterday, I wrote about the basics of setting up a WordPress blog and picking out and setting up a theme.  Yesterday, I added a simple logo to my header.  I know, it is very simple, but much better than what was there before.  Furthermore, it was free, and as you know I am trying to make money with this blog not spend money.  How did you get a free logo?  Well, I asked for it, I went to the freebie section of Digital Point forums and posted a thread and said I started a new blog and was wondering if anyone wanted to create a simple free logo for me.  Sure enough, within 5 minutes I had several responses and a good looking simple logo.  The next step is to get the logo on the blog.  This is a lot easier than you may think.  There are a lot of ways to go about this but if you are like me and want the easiest way, follow these steps.

• Go into you wp-admin and open your theme editor, then find and open the header.php
• Find this line of code   ——>    <h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>   <p class=”Desc”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></p>
• Erase it
• FTP your new image to the image folder in your template folder
• Open Style.css
• Find the code  —–>   Header .LS { position: absolute; top: 30px; left: 30px; background: url(images/LogoIcon.png) no-repeat left top; width: 40px; height: 43px;}
• Replace “LogoIcon.png” with your logo name and then resize the width and height accordingly.

There you go, pretty easy, right. 

Stay tuned, tomorrow I will write about which Plugins I am using and how to install them.