Usually when you put a page in the nav bar, the title that you originally created for the page is the same as what will appear in the nav bar. Check out the nav bar on this site and click on “archive”. Notice how the page title says “Check out all my older stuff…”. Here’s the simple way to make this happen.

First, go to Dashboard —->Links —-> Link categories…

Create a link category. I named mine “navigation menu”. This is simply going to be a holding area for all the links I want in my nav menu.

Next, create a page and publish it. View the page and copy it’s URL….

Next we’re going to put this new page into the “holding area” called navigation menu…

Go to Dashboard —–>Links —->Add New….

When your here just fill in the other options to whatever gives you the effect your looking for

Next we’re going to add this page to the nav bar…

Go to Dashboard —->Appearance —->Thesis Options…

From the drop down list pick the category that you put the links you want to put in the nav bar, in my case it was navigation menu

Hit the save button and check it out!

Go to Dashboard —->Appearance —->Thesis Options…

These are all the pages in my site. Every time I create a page it automatically gets updated into this list. Now it’s just a simple matter of checking which pages I want in the nav menu. The title I created for the page is the title of the page in this list and will be what appears in my nav bar. To change the title so it’s different than what will appear in the nav bar, check out this tutorial.

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*sidebar title normal case*/
.custom h3 { font-variant: normal ; }

Go to Dashboard —-> Appearance —-> Thesis Options….

You can also choose to show, or not to show, your site’s name and tagline. Pick whatever you want to give the desired effect. Hit the save button.

Dashboard —-> Appearance —-> Thesis Options….

Pick your choices from the drop down menus. Hit the save button.

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /* */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*headline meta styles*/
.custom .headline_meta {color: #888888 ;}
.custom .headline_meta {font-style: italic ;}
.custom .headline_meta {line-height: 1.8em ;}
.custom .headline_meta {font-size: 1em ;}

Change these or add more styles to get your desired effect

To learn more about these styles check out W3schools

Go to your dashboard —> appearance —> thesis options and find the section below…

Check or uncheck which ones give you the desired effect. Hit the save button.

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If you want to only move the category items and not any other widget items, like this tutorial, then follow this…

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*move category items around*/
.custom li.cat-item { text-align: center ; }

Change “center” to “right” or “left” to get the desired effect.

You can put as much space between the avatar or headline and the beginning of it’s following post…

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*space between avatar and post*/
.custom .format_text { margin-top: 3em ; }

Set the em’s to whatever suites your needs

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your descripton between the comment tags /*  */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*widget headline color*/
.custom li.widget_categories h3 {background-color:#FFF333;}

Here are some other widget names that come with thesis:

widget_pages
widget_calendar
widget_archive
widget_links
widget_meta
widget_recent_entries
widget_google_cse
widget_tag_cloud
widget_text
widget_thesis_widget_search
widget_thesis_widget_subscriptions

You just replace the widget that you want to use in the code between the “li” and “h3″.

Remember if you change the heading size to something other than h3 than you put your new size in place of the “h3″ in the code.