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Changing the Font & Style of Your H1 Tags

QUESTION: (Rhonda) I am having problems changing the font size of my H1text. Is this very important? If so, how do I go about changing it?

Changing the text and/or style of an H1 tag is simple in CSS.  It does not affect anything other than how the visitor sees it though (i.e., if you use a large font, it means nothing more than a smaller font, in SEO terms or how Google sees it).

You can change the H1 tag locally or in the CSS definition file.

If you want to change all of the H1 tag settings in your entire website, you would do this in the CSS file:

h1 {
font-size: 24px;
}

You would use the h1 tag as you normally would:
<h1>This is my H1 tag</h1>

You can define a class in the CSS file which allows you to define your new style whenever you wish anywhere on the site:

.h1style {
font-size: 24px;
}

You would add this class to your h1 tag, when you wish it:

<h1 class=”h1style”>This is my H1 Tag</h1>

* Remember to add the “.” when defining it in the CSS to classify it as a class.

Finally, you can do it locally using a style attribute (without the CSS file):

<h1 style=”font-size:24px;”>This is my H1 Tag</h1>

All of the above do the exact same thing.  Their use is based on how often you use the style and how you want it defined (whether globally or locally).

Also, remember you can add other styles to the same definition (like color):

<h1 style=”font-size:24px; color:red;”>This is my H1 Tag that is Red and 24px high</h1>

I find that being able to change the styles of my text for header and other standard tags to be quite invaluable!  Knowing a little bit of CSS can go a long way.  Give this a try!

The easiest thing to try first is the local definition using the style attribute. If this is working for you, consider creating or editing your own CSS file!

Good luck!  cheers…matt


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Extreme Wordpress Blog Make-Over

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As I approached the end of 2008, I was looking at my Wordpress blog and thinking: This is fairly plain. Plus, the emergance of social media is making the use of blogs even that much more prominent and important. My goal, therefore, was to create a blog that is more complete, more informative (and more fun!). This is what you see here!

For those of you who regularly follow my blog (THANKS!) will have noticed that MatthewBredel.com has an entirely new look!

As I approached the end of 2008, I was looking at my Wordpress blog and thinking:  This is fairly plain.  Plus, the emergence of social media is making the use of blogs even that much more prominent and important.

My goal, therefore, was to create a blog that is more complete, more informative (and more fun!).  This is what you see here!

The theme was actually custom designed, but the concept is a merging of the themes from Problogger.net and 4HourWorkWeek.com/Blog (I really wanted a cool photo like Tim Ferris has on his blog, but right now this awful photo of me on a rock will have to do…until I find a better one!).

So let me explain a few of the new features that are found on MatthewBredel.com:

  1. Featured Story - This is the latest and greatest post added to the blog.  It covers all topics.
  2. Matt’s Weekly Video - This is my latest and greatest video of the week.  I have been doing good with keeping up with weekly videos (but don’t be surprised if more than 1 video is produced per week!).
  3. Guru Corner - This is new and this is probably going to be the most popular section of the blog!  Being in this business for a few years, I have developed some rather good relationships and partners along the way.  I hope to share my relationships with you by offering interviews with these gurus and guest posts on a regular basis.  This is going to be AWESOME!
  4. Geek Stuff - This section will not be for everyone, but for those who do some of your own programming and editing, this section is going to be full of tricks, trials and tribulations that I have personally experienced.  Since I program in PHP/MySQL/HTML, I am confronted with technical challenges quite often.  Most of these answers have been tough to find, but I usually solve them.  (And most of these scripts and actions are directly related to making money on my websites!)  As these technical issues come up, I will continue to post the solution here!
  5. Social Media and Social Widgets - On the right hand side, I have added both my Twitter feeds (follow me at MatthewBredel!) and you can now log into MatthewBredel.com using your Facebook Login!  (This is called Facebook Connect!)

And this is just the beginning.  I plan to continue adding more stuff and “tweaking” the theme to making it more easier to follow (and aesthetically more pleasing!).  My first task is to get rid of that stupid picture!

But as you can see, there is  lot going on and your patronage and support is what prompted me to make these changes.

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cheers…matt

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3 Responses to “Extreme Wordpress Blog Make-Over”

  1. Hey Matt,

    This is an ongoing problem that I am having with my blog.

    My challenge is I don’t know much about the backend coding, phph, html, etc.

    I have had two failed attempts at outsourcing the job, one through eLance and one through a previous membership to Wealthy Affiliate. The end result is, I have still done the bulk of the “design” of my site.

    What I want to do is encorporate a logo into the header of my site (similar to my gravatar), clean up the links in the footer and ensure that my feeds are functioning correctly (and my site map plugin).

    I assume that your design knowledge has enabled you to pull features from two themes and build your own?

    I think a theme today needs to have;
    rss subsription/feed easy to see and use,
    links, like follow me, to social media sites,
    interactive widgets showing recient comments, posts,
    A good about me page,
    and of course content that encourages traffic and interaction.

    Great post Matt,

    Cheers!

    Jeromy

    Posted by: Jeromy
    February 11th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

  2. Hey Jeromy,

    It sounds like you are on the right path here and trial and error is the key, especially with PHP. And yes, my knowledge of PHP (which I just learned on my own…no classes, just a book…PHP and MySQL by Larry Ullman…led me the way).

    When I got this new theme from the Wordpress designer, it was good, but like you say, I still needed to go back in a “tweek” a bunch of stuff (I still have plenty to do, too). Widgets make it easy, but being able (and confident) to manually go in and make a few theme changes in the PHP editor can be EXTREMELY POWERFUL.

    I don’t want this blog to get too technical, but I will start posting some good ol’ php basics to help people like you *understand* the basics around php so when it comes time to make some changes, it won’t seem so scary.

    Feel free to post your blog URL here…I’d love to see it!

    cheers…matt

    Posted by: Matthew Bredel
    February 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

  3. I love the new look! I love that people have plenty of places to look for information instead of just today’s post. Great work, Matt!

    Posted by: Dana Prince
    February 15th, 2009 at 10:45 am

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