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I'm having much the same problem that Brittany did. I followed your steps, but even after uploading my new logo.gif with Cyberduck, I'm still getting “Portfolio Press”.

Any suggestions?

I'm having much the same problem that Brittany did. I followed your steps, but even after uploading my new logo.gif with Cyberduck, I'm still getting “Portfolio Press”.

Any suggestions?

You absolutely did the right thing in changing your header text in your WP Admin settings. (That text will show up when you Google your name, so you want it to be right.)

The problem you're having now is that the “Portfolio Press” header you see is actually an image, not raw text, so that chatter you entered in the settings menu isn't showing up. Notice how you can't highlight the letters individually like you can with raw text in your posts.

Inside the Portfolio Press folder is a folder called Images, and inside that is a file called logo.gif. If you open that up, you'll see that it's the header image that has been giving you fits.

Sidenote: For anyone else who's having this same issue, here's how to find out which image is showing up in your header: In your WP Admin, go into the Appearance Editor on the left. Select the style.css file and find the section in it that is labeled “header.” You'll see some various CSS code that you may not understand, but within that code, you'll see at least one file name. That is usually the image that is giving you fits.)

The easiest way to replace that image goes something like this:
-Open up logo.gif in Photoshop
-Select all and delete whatever is there (or just turn all those layers invisible.)
-Type in your name or whatever you want it to say in your header. (You can use whatever professional-looking font you want, which is one benefit of doing this in Photoshop rather than just pulling in the raw text from your settings menu.) Just keep the dimension of the file the same.
-When it looks like you want, go to File–>Save for Web. You want to save it as a .gif with a transparent background.
-Save it as logo.gif, the exact same name as the original file.
-Upload the new logo.gif into the images folder via your FTP program. It will likely ask you if you want to overwrite or replace that file. Yes, you do.
-Voila! That should do it. Refresh your page and your new header image should appear.

Hope that helps. Let me know if this doesn't solve the problem.

You absolutely did the right thing in changing your header text in your WP Admin settings. (That text will show up when you Google your name, so you want it to be right.)

The problem you're having now is that the “Portfolio Press” header you see is actually an image, not raw text, so that chatter you entered in the settings menu isn't showing up. Notice how you can't highlight the letters individually like you can with raw text in your posts.

Inside the Portfolio Press folder is a folder called Images, and inside that is a file called logo.gif. If you open that up, you'll see that it's the header image that has been giving you fits.

(Sidenote: For anyone else who's having this same issue, here's how to find out which image is showing up in your header: In your WP Admin, go into the Appearance Editor on the left. Select the style.css file and find the section in it that is labeled “header.” You'll see some various CSS code that you may not understand, but within that code, you'll see at least one file name. That is usually the image that is giving you fits.)

The easiest way to replace that image goes something like this:
<ul>
<li>Open up logo.gif in Photoshop</li>
<li>Select all and delete whatever is there (or just turn all those layers invisible.)</li>
<li>Type in your name or whatever you want it to say in your header. (You can use whatever professional-looking font you want, which is one benefit of doing this in Photoshop rather than just pulling in the raw text from your settings menu.) Just keep the dimension of the file the same.</li>
<li>When it looks like you want, go to File–>Save for Web. You want to save it as a .gif with a transparent background.</li>
<li>Save it as logo.gif, the exact same name as the original file.</li>
<li>Upload the new logo.gif into the images folder via your FTP program. It will likely ask you if you want to overwrite or replace that file. Yes, you do.</li>
<li>Voila! That should do it. Refresh your page and your new header image should appear.</li>
</ul>
Hope that helps. Let me know if this doesn't solve the problem.