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For those who aren’t aware of this blogging platform, b2evolution is a software solution along the lines of other popular platforms like WordPress or Movable Type, which allows a blogger to have their own blog hosted on their own server through b2evolution hosting on a web host they trust. This freedom is what many seek because they aren’t interested in being tied to a specific website. While not currently the most profoundly popular of the open source blogging platforms out there today, the b2evolution blog is definitely moving up in the world.

A big reason for this rise in popularity is the fact that b2evolution gives users quite a bit of power and flexibility that are not found in other packages or are harder to use. The multiple language support, multi user system and multiple blog capability has drawn quite a crowd to this recent entry to the blog software world. Users looking to add several blogs and manage them easily will certainly appreciate the fact that this particular software can do that easily, centralizing all of the control so you don’t have to leap around the web attending to all of your blogs. You can put up a b2evolution post in seconds. That’s an advantage that plenty of website owners and bloggers are going to love.

Another strong point with this platform is its customization factor. There are a few professional grade media sites running b2evolution and they’re not only good looking, they’re quite powerful, too. Having access to a system that is powerful enough to run a pro level celebrity gossip blog that gets a few million hits a week? That’s another advantage that plenty of bloggers feel like taking. It’s that customization feature that is going to allow you to add your own logo so your blog has exactly the look you want. You can even add a custom b2evolution skin.

It’s actually really simple and all you have to do is go to your b2evolution folder using either web access or your standard ftp client. Next, go into the “skins” directory and in there you should see a directory titled “custom”. In this directory you’ll see a file named “_main.php” and if you already have a program for editing php files then you should be use the one you are familiar with. If you don’t, then search for NotePad2, a free open source txt editor that makes php editing simple.

Look for this section of code within the _main.php file:

<div>
<h1 id=”pageTitle”><?php $Blog->disp( ‘name’, ‘htmlbody’ ) ?></h1><div><?php $Blog->disp( ‘tagline’, ‘htmlbody’ ) ?></div>
</div>

Once you’ve located it, all you have to do is insert this line of code between the <div> and <h1 id=> lines

<img src=”img/Yourlogoname.jpg” alt=”My logo” style=”float:left” />

After that insertation, the end result should make that block of code look like this:

<div>
<img src=”img/Yourlogoname.jpg” alt=”My logo” style=”float:left” />
<h1 id=”pageTitle”><?php $Blog->disp( ‘name’, ‘htmlbody’ ) ?></h1>
<div><?php $Blog->disp( ‘tagline’, ‘htmlbody’ ) ?></div>
</div>

Go ahead and save this change when you are done, close the file and upload the changed _main.php file back onto your server to replace the old file.

See where it says ‘img src=”img/Yourlogoname.jpg”‘? Well, that Yourlogoname.jpg needs to be replaced by whatever the jpg image of your logo is named. In order to insert the logo properly, you need to navigate to the “img” directory of your b2evolution installation, in the /skins/custom/img folder. The key point here is to make sure that the name of your jpg image in the _main.php matches up with the name of the image in the /img folder. You can also alter the ‘alt=”My logo”‘ bit to whatever you would like the image to have as its alt tag.

Once you’ve completed these steps, go take a look at your new logo because that’s all there is to it. Now you’ve got your own logo on a blog powered by b2evolution!

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