Divide Blogger Header In Two Parts or Sections ~ All Blogger Tricks

A blogger header consists of every single section that appears at the top of your blog. It is a container which contains two important sections which are Logo portion where you add title, logo and description of blog and the second portion includes Navigation Menu where you add site links. Now this tutorial needs a little bit of your careful attention as we will need to edit your template's coding. Since most templates are designed by different sources so the coding will differ a little bit but the format would be same. See the Picture below to know what exactly is header splitting:

Normal header ,

Header divided/splitted in two parts,

Did you see the difference? That is what we are about to do in order to create a separate section for your advertisement purposes. Normally we often add a 468 by 60 size banner to the right side and we therefore need a widget section for it. So lets play around!

Split your blog's Header in two parts

Go to Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
Backup your template
Uncheck the "Expand Widget Templates" box if in case it is checked.
Search for the following code:

#header-wrapper {
width:960px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid $bordercolor;
}

#header-inner {
background-position: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

#header {
margin: 5px;
border: 1px solid $bordercolor;
text-align: center;
color:$pagetitlecolor;
}

#header h1 {
margin:5px 5px 0;
padding:15px 20px .25em;
line-height:1.2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
font: $pagetitlefont;
}

#header a {
color:$pagetitlecolor;
text-decoration:none;
}

#header a:hover {
color:$pagetitlecolor;
}

#header .description {
margin:0 5px 5px;
padding:0 20px 15px;
max-width:700px;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
line-height: 1.4em;
font: $descriptionfont;
color: $descriptioncolor;
}

#header img {
margin-$startSide: auto;
margin-$endSide: auto;
}

Note: You code will be not an exact but similar to the above one. Select all code that contains the word "#header" ".header" at start.

Now replace this entire code with the following one,

/*------Header-----*/
#header-wrapper{
    width: 960px;
    color: #000;
    margin: 30px auto 0;
    padding: 0px;
    overflow: hidden;
}
#header-inner {
    background-position: left;
    background-repeat: no;
}
.headerleft h1, .headerleft h1 a,.headerleft h1 a:hover,.headerleft h1 a:visited {
    color: #BF0100;
    font-size: 36px;
    font-family: 'Ultra', serif, Arial;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0px 0 5px 0;
    text-decoration: none;
      text-shadow: 6px 6px 4px #ccc;
       line-height:1.2em;
}

.headerleft h3 {
    font-family: arial, tahoma, Sans-Serif;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

.headerleft .description {
        color: #3B3B3B;
    font:bold 12px Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0 0 20px 0;
        text-shadow: 4px 4px 6px #ccc;
}

.headerleft {
         width: 450px;
         float: left;
         margin: 0;
         padding: 0;
         height:80px;
}
.headerright {
         width: 468px;
         height:80px;
         float: right;
         margin: 0px;
         padding:1px 0 0 0;

}

4. Now search for this code or a similar code that must contain div section of your header:

<div id='header-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='The MBT Lab (Header)' type='Header'/>
</b:section>

It must contain the <b:section and </b:section> tags.

5. Now replace this with the following code:

<div id='header-wrapper'>
<div class='headerleft'>
<b:section class='headerleft' id='headerleft' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='The MBT Lab (Header)' type='Header'/>

</b:section>
</div>

<div class='headerright'>
<b:section class='headerright' id='headerright' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>

6. Now Save your template and view your Page elements page and say bingo! :)

Customization

To adjust header width edit: 960px

To change Header Title colour change:#BF0100

To change Header description colour then change:#3B3B3B

Need Help?

This tutorial can be a lot easy if you do as instructed or if you have some prior knowledge of CSS and HTML else it could be a little headache. Do let me know if I could be of any further assistance. Keep trying till you finally make it. Peace out buddies. :>

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