Wordpress themes frustrating me

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Finally I got myself a free theme and I uploaded it. I'm new to wordpress, in fact I'm new to entire website building process. I installed just hours ago. I put up the theme and in the header, I see the name of the theme not my title. I go through all the links in the dashboard to edit the text or the image but everything is soooooooo confusing. I even googled for help but there guys are talking outrageously weird stuff including html and css. I can do html to a certain extent, I mean I've used html editors :rolleyes: I wonder if there is still so much techie html and css stuff involved in wordpress then why do even people say, if you don't know html, go for wordpress!!!! I think considering my limited knowledge, I could make a better site with html.

How do i change this sick header? I want my site's name, not the theme's over there.
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  • Profile picture of the author BudgetSEO
    You need to edit the header image and upload it in place of the default image
    No need for editing any codes if you keep the names of the files same.
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    • Profile picture of the author Raindance
      Originally Posted by BudgetSEO View Post

      You need to edit the header image and upload it in place of the default image
      No need for editing any codes if you keep the names of the files same.
      how do i do even that?
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      • Profile picture of the author BudgetSEO
        Originally Posted by Raindance View Post

        how do i do even that?
        Right click on your header image will be something like yourdomain.com/blah/blah/blah/something.jpg or .png or some image
        Note that location and make your new logo/header and upload to the same directory, make sure the old name and new name (of the image) is the same, else you will have to edit codes (which i am no good at)
        Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Raindance
    When i right click on the theme's name in my header, it shows just my url (mydomain.com), no directory, no jpg, nothing
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  • Profile picture of the author Damien Roche
    Send your link to someone via pm.

    With wordpress, you either learn how it works yourself for this kid of tweaking or you find somebody you can hire.

    All comes down to where you think your time is best spent.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    Just go into your theme files which will be in your ftp..wp-content/themes/themename and edit the header.php file, you need to understand some bit php and html to get this thing fixed, but definitely not hard.

    By the way, since you say you see the theme's name, it must be the default logo, so just right click on that part and click on view image ( in firefox ) 90% it would be logo.png or jpg or gif. It should be in your theme images files wp-content/themes/themename/images/, either delete that file or create your own logo or just simple text image of your website name and upload it to the same place.
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    • Profile picture of the author Raindance
      Its not even treating that crap as an image. that's the whole problem. Look at the pic below. I right click and NO IMAGING OPTIONS

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      • Profile picture of the author lindgren
        Hi RainDance
        I feel your frustrations. Pm me if you want me to
        take a look and guide you through the process.

        Wordpress is simple- but NOT easy to learn to navigate.

        Lets get your back on track :-)
        Tina
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  • Profile picture of the author SeoWizzard
    Some themes have built in options to replace the header image (when they come with their default one). Actually almost all themes have this option, if your's doesn't I'd suggest finding one that does and not waste time on technical details.
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  • Profile picture of the author keyuria
    change the logo.gif in your theme image folder with the help of ftp
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