Changing the dashboard header code

Add this to your functions.php file in your theme directory. It gives you more control than just changing the logo and header color.

// Change dashboard header
function custom_colors() {
	echo '<style type="text/css">
		#header-logo{ background-image:url('.get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/30PX_LOGO_IMAGE.png)!important; }
		#wphead{ background:#191919 url('.get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/BACKGROUND_IMAGE.png) repeat-x!important;}
		h1#site-heading a{ font-family: Myriad Pro, FONT OF YOUR CHOICE;
		color:#7BCC02;  }
	</style>';
}

Then you add the hook needed for making this function run in the admin_head.

add_action( 'admin_head', 'custom_colors' );

You can probably take this even further and change the font-size, or the other links and text on the right side of the header. I tried to do that real quick but don't think I was doing it right, or it may not be possible I don't know.

In other news

I've been working on a new theme, and it's highly customized, and customizable. It utilizes all the new WordPress 3.0 features that have been added, including custom post types and taxonomies, and so much more. It is going to truly be "non-blog" style website theme. Making it has really shown me how much more powerful WP 3.0 is, and how much more you will be able to do with it.

The theme is still far from done, but it includes every new feature that has been added in WordPress 3.0.

What this means for you?

I will be writing about how you can do some of the things I have learned, which I can say is more than I ever thought I would. WP 3.0 is truly amazing, and it really opens the door to a whole new world of websites with WordPress.

Stay tuned for more info on this, and new posts about how to do things in 3.0.