5 hours ago, solsol69 said:in your last test what code did you use ?
<div class="header-top">
Just saw this--missed it earlier. I have been using CSS for the most part(but a little html here and there). I have tried rgba color codes, background-color;transparent, and honestly just about anything I can think of to make that area not be white. I can hack a photo into the area using header.tpl, by wrapping a div around all of the divs between the blocks, and adding a photo, but putting a transparent png in there still shows the underlying white area. I did manage to change colors of various divs within that area a few times--though that is inconsistent--I think mainly due to swapping for mobile as I change the page size.
The thing is, without any styling at all, it's still white, and that's what gets me. I think I may have toggled half the divs to transparent multiple times throughout the day, but it doesn't appear that way because something else exists there, and I don't know what. Which was my main reason for stripping all of the styling, because I wanted to see if that made it go away, it didn't, but every other div on the page did.
If I knew where to go to change that underlying white area to transparent, I could then start hunting down all of the other divs in that area(and there are more than a couple), and switching them one by one, but until that underlying white area is gone it's an exercise in futility because there's no visual feedback for what I'm doing.
...and thanks for the suggestions, I'm at my wit's end here.