[bandj]

I went with essential grid. It's great.

[bandj]

that looks good tatami. I'll check that one out. thanks

[bandj]

Thanks David I'm checking it out now.

[bandj]

simple enough for me to figure out?

it might be. here are some sites with tuts on how to add a widget area.

http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/register-widget-area/

http://wpsites.net/web-design/widget-genesis/

How to Add a Widget Area to a Page Using Genesis

[bandj]

in dashboard go to settings/reading/front page displays and pick your about page as your front page

[bandj]

did you try changing your .widget-title_home to .home-top .widget-title to see if that works?

[bandj]

If you want to change the title in only that widget area you could try adding

.home-top .widget-title {
font-size: whatever;
}

to your css to change any attributes you want to that element.

[bandj]

good luck. I recall someone, I think Bill Erickson, having some tuts on adding to the nav bar

[bandj]

they do show the search in the preview picture but not on the actual demo. If you set up the primary nav like in the demo and go to Genesis/theme settings and in navigation section there is a dropdown to choose Primary Navigation Extras.

[bandj]

unfortunately my next step would be to go through the css and look for a missed ; or curly bracket.

[bandj]

My answers, and others can chime in are:

a. no
b. you should use a child theme always. They have a free one called Sample which looks the same as Genesis.
You have to use a child theme that was made for Genesis. There are many out there that are not made by Studiopress, but it has to be designed to be used with Genesis as the parent theme. Oliver is not a child theme for Genesis.
c. You can't use Oliver with Genesis. You can design a child theme for Genesis that looks like Oliver. I use Genesis because I trust their coding and security.

[bandj]

I don't see the style below for your .wrap and .content-sidebar-wrap like on the demo

{
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1140px;
}

[bandj]

yes there is a way. http://www.carriedils.com/widget-area-above-header-genesis/

[bandj]

I understand what you're looking for. I don't know one. In the past I've just edited the plugin's css

[bandj]

looks like that plugin has a custom css section also

[bandj]

btw, it looks really nice. I like it.

[bandj]

Because this style is coming from a plugin you can do a search on ways to override a plugin's css.

I found this: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/101037/how-do-i-cleanly-override-a-plugins-css-with-a-child-theme

[bandj]

Thanks Jamie. That's about what I thought I would have to do. I think I've come across some plugins to let you add html to widgets.

[bandj]

give a margin: 0 auto; to the nav wrap

[bandj]

that's one long post. If you want a divider somewhere you can add a <hr> tag in the html editor wherever you want a line.

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