Forum:Need help with a wiki's header

I am utterly atrocious when it comes to CSS and JS and all that. I've been working on building up, a wiki, http://alternativesaga.wikia.com, for a few months now, and it's only by the grace of God that I got a decent looking design up. One thing that I noticed when I made the design is that by adding the background skin as I did (not the one just on the main page, but the greyish/blue cityscape one on all pages) is that it also got rid of the header at the top with user name, My Home, Talk, etc. I don't know how to get that back, but I thought that adding this code from another wiki I work on would fix it. It didn't. So, would anyone know what code to add that would allow me to get the header back? Thanks! =D - Brandon Rhea (talk) 20:24, September 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * ADDENDUM: Just in case it wasn't clear, this is a Monaco question. If Monobook viewers view the Main Page, they won't be able to read the content, as I don't yet have a Monobook skin up. That's coming, though! - Brandon Rhea (talk) 20:25, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * How's this? Mark  ( talk ) 20:57, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Good, for the most part. Is it possible, though, to keep the background image the way it currently is on the wiki, i.e. it doesn't move with the page and it's not tiled? - Brandon Rhea (talk) 21:04, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. Those were just a few minor adjustments made so it follows Wikia's design standards. I'll change it now :). Mark  ( talk ) 21:05, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * How's it now? Mark  ( talk ) 21:06, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

It's still appearing tiled for me, and much larger. I'm not looking to change the design so much as I just need the header buttons to appear. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 21:09, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didn't see those. I made it a different minor change so it should show up well. Working on it, making sure nothing's changed. Mark  ( talk ) 21:10, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Allright, I've changed it so it won't make any tiles anymore. Though this does mean you'll have to enlarge the image. I'll explain. Previously you used the background image, which by default overlaps the headerbar. You used margins to move it over it, so the links will still be there, they'll just be below the image. I could change the overlay of the image, but that means that both the Wikia button and the Hub buttons disappear and there's no way to get those back (as far as my experience goes). The way it is now it uses the default background ("color2"), which doesn't overlap anything. The previous image was manually stretched using CSS, the new one keeps it default size, as it has a fixed location with no-repeat. I'm afraid I can't think of any other way than resizing the image to a 1700x1200 version, which would fit perfectly. Perhaps somebody else has a suggestion? Mark  ( talk ) 21:18, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * I uploaded a 1,700 x 1,200 version to your wiki and added it to the Monaco.css. I don't know if there's anything else you need to do, though. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 21:44, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Allright, as far as I can tell it's exactly the same as the wiki now with the text ;). If you want to get rid of that repeating right side I think you'll have to enlarge the image a bit further. Mark  ( talk ) 22:01, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not exactly the same on my screen but it's good. Thanks! I'm not seeing a repeated right side, though. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 22:34, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem! That's probably because we have different screen sizes. Mark  ( talk ) 22:35, September 3, 2010 (UTC)