Su, I was just working on this myself the other day.  I agree that the CSS could use some tweaking here to make the header better laid out.  The empty divs with clear:both is not good CSS form.

I made these edits to remove the shopping cart and search field in the header, and center my own header graphic.  This may not be what you wanted to do, but if it is, feel free to take this code and use it.

First, I've changed header.php so that the "bar" div looks as follows:

<div id="bar">
 <div class="barhead">
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>
  <div class="header"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> – <?php echo mkt_THEME_HEADER_NAV_HOME; ?>"><img src="<?php
    if ($mkt_options['mktlogo'] != null) {
        echo $mkt_options['mktlogo'];
    } else {
          bloginfo('template_directory');
        echo '/imgs/logo.gif';
    }
    ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" align="center" /></a>
    </div> <!– close header div –>
  <div class="sdl">
   </div>
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>
 </div>
</div>

Then, I went to styles.css and changed the .header definition to add "text-align:center;" to it.

Hope this helps you too!

JHi

i have jsut followed the instructions above.  I want to keep the search box and remove the cart and cart image.

However, following the instructions for line#118 removes teh search box and following the instructions for line #88 removes cart image cart function and the search box goes half way down the page.

Any suggestions?

Susan

Disregard. I just needed to clear my cache.