Were going to run through enough customizations here

We’re going to run through enough customizations here that you’ll be comfortable making your
own individual changes. However, because your changes will be different than the ones we’re
making here, we won’t be able to cover them all.
Before you get started, I strongly recommend you take a few minutes to just look around the
customizer – ie.e check out all the different options before you start making changes.
You’ll notice from our image below that we’ve published a post, just to make it easier to get a
feel for how the site looks. The below image represents our default settings.
Our objective here is to create a homepage that features your content, but also makes it clear
that you are available for hire.
Step 1: Clean Up the Header
You’ll find this setting under LAYOUT >> HEADER.

1. Change “Header Layout” to Centered.
2. Scroll the bottom and uncheck “Show Search Field.”
3. Click “Save & Publish.”
The header should now look like this:
Much better, right?
Step 2: Change the Typography
You’ll probably agree that our typography is looking a little bland right now. We’re going to make
some changes to our theme while keeping the following objectives in mind:
1. We want the site to be easy to read.
2. We want consistency. That means selecting a total of 2­3 fonts maximum, including the
site’s title.
These are the fonts were going to use for our site:
● Site Title – QUICKSAND
● Main Menu – JOSEFIN SANS
● Headers – JOSEFIN SANS
● Body Text – MERRIWEATHER

To set your individual fonts, you’ll find the font settings under TYPOGRAPHY.
Site Title and Tagline
Let’s change the Site Title and Tagline fist.
Here is what we changed:
● Font Family: Quicksand
● Font Style: Normal
● Font Size: 42px
● Text Transform: Uppercase
● Letter Spacing: 1px
Everything else we’ll leave as default for now. Click “Save and Publish.”
Headers
Next, we’ll change the Text Headers.

Here is what we changed for H1 to H6:
● Font Family: Josefin Sans
● Font Weight: Normal
● Line Height: 1.3em
Global
What about out main body text?
We’ll change that in Global settings:
● Font­Family: Merriweather
Don’t forget “Save & Publish!”
Main Menu
Finally, we’ll change our main menu font to the following:
● Font­Family: Josefin Sans
● Font­Size: 20px
● Text­Transform: Lowercase
Once again, don’t forget “Save & Publish!”

With the live editor, you’ll see your changes happening in real­time. With the changes above,
this is roughly how our site looks now:
Step 3: Time to Experiment
By now, you’re probably getting more comfortable moving around the theme customizer.
It’s more than likely that today will be one of your longer days. Spend an hour or two
experimenting with some different settings until you have a layout and look that resembles what
you want. ( But again, remember your goal is to ship a “good enough site, not make a perfect
one! )
Here are a few specific tweaks we made to the sample site that you might find beneficial:
Layout >> Blog(Posts Page)
1. We made sure “show right sidebar was checked.”
2. Post Date Style was set to None – this removes the post date from your blog posts.