I think to come again after you have done up with all suggestions given below.

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to check into this issue for me! I GREATLY appreciate it!...You all ROCK! ;-)

I would suggest that you switch to another theme. Don't put any banner there, it will just look strange... and it's not good to show something like that right away... The visitors are feeling like you are selling stuff right away! Go for another them instead:-)

/Johan

That space you're talking about is the header right section in your widgets area. Try putting your affiliate banner there or move the search widget there.

I checked into this theme and could not find out why it dies this. If I was you I would switch themes. I personally prefer Pagelines - Platform it is a great blogging theme and lots of options to choice from plus it is very easy to figure out.

Hi, I think the Amazon affiliate banner that you have at the top could be moved to the side bar instead, That would close up the space. A widget text box could be used to paste the html into,

I myself don't see the gap or the Amazon banner mentioned so I'm assuming your prob has been fixed.

The Amazon banner is taking the space (You can't see it) If you remove it, you will be able to close the space or add text. Most affiliate banners you can then add to the right of the text. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do this with Amazon banners. I usually put them where I have no text. Maybe someone here is smarter than me.....Pete

hmmm im not too sure...could it be the theme you chose? I know with some themes,they'll rearrange your info in the way it wasn't intended and how it wasn't supposed to look. You can add a picture maybe as like a background or add the picture to the beginning of your first post. Hope this helps :/

Yes depends on the flexibility of your theme. Go to appearance > themes > customise in the editor mate

All resolved? Sure hope so. You got great advice from both guys! I had the same question awhile back. Pugins sure are a great tool.

Hey Terrika.

It's totally theme dependent as to whether this is "easy" or not. For example the PageLines theme http://wordpress.org/themes/pagelines allows control over typography even in the free version as you can see here: http://d.pr/i/nHWD You'll also find that many premium themes allow you a lot more "design" options often including the use of Google Webfonts and Adobe Typekit for even more typography choices.

However, with many other themes you might have to "tweak" the CSS code by creating a "custom.css" stylesheet in FTP and copying editing the relevant code from "style.css". I wouldn't recommend direct editing of style.css as if anything goes wrong, you may "trash" your site and also the file style.css often gets overwritten with theme updates, which means you may have to redo your edits over-and-over again.

If you do decide you want to edit the CSS I'd recommend hopping over to Dean's (@apina) website http://www.apinapress.com and signing up for his free HTML & CSS Primer. He actually wrote it for me when I first signed up to WA as a kind and generous act. OK, he really got sick and tired of answering my "coding" questions. :)

If you're a *visual* person I can also highly recommend Ultimate TinyMCE http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/ which gives you a whole host of on page and post typography options. Dom (@DomW) has created some brilliant training on it here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/ultimate-tinymce-plugin-the-ultimate-training

Hope this helps!

Rich.

Hi, I left you some info on your profile. Hope it helps. If not contact me. I am glad to try to help.

Hi, some themes are more flexible than others about fonts and colors. I use a free plugin called ckeditor that replaces the standard choices in the wordpress editor. It offers you a lot more choices in changing your font colors etc.

Yes, you can, but trouble can follow if you use them!

I don't think you can do screenshots of Google Images. Those images are connected to websites. Most of those websites have copyright so you could run into trouble using those images.
Some Flickr images can be used but you would have to read the policy where the image is.
I concur with Rich that you should have a look at Kyle's training at the link Rich provided.

That's EXACTLY the training I needed! :-)

Thanks so much RICH!

I recommend you follow Kyle's training here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-find-add-images-to-your-website It's not "risk-free" to just snag images. :) Rich.