It turned out to be difficult to add a background image in the header for somebody's personal weblog. OK, that's not exactly accurate. It's actually pretty easy. The difficulty is with a multi-user site, that means I have to come up with an interface so that everybody can do it - and then tweak all the themes so that they won't show garbage when you visit the pages of folks who haven't made any changes. 

Anyway, I've figured out a way that doesn't cause too much pain. I've also added some different flavors of site header layouts to the theme selections for views and weblogs - so you have a bit more control over them. 

If everything still looks the same to you, that means I did a good job of ensuring compatibility. But now you can create a bit richer website or blog than you could before.  

The header choices are slim at the moment - the choices are 'simple' and 'meatlovers' in a couple of different flavors. Some have the text on the left and the site image in the middle, some reversed. Some show the date, some don't - which might be important to you for global readers. I'll be adding more headers to choose from. Some weblog headers include your name, some don't. The 'meatlovers' indicates it's got the works (or the 'lot' if you're an Aussie).

In order to set a background image on the header (currently only for weblogs, though I'll get it worked out for your shared websites soon) - you trigger it from one of the photos in your photo albums. View said photo, and the 'Actions' menu will let you set the photo to be any of 'profile photo', 'website logo', weblog logo', or 'weblog background'.

Click the appropriate one, and confirm when you get to the next page.

Note that if you currently have a weblog photo, and don't want it anymore (now that you can have a photo background on the header), you need to unset it. Choose any image (even your new background) and follow the steps above to set it as your weblog photo instead of as a background image.

Except that instead of confirming, click the 'Unset' button. This will unset your weblog photo. 

Apologies, I'll make all of this easier. This is just a temporary workaround until I've got a better way to do it. I also need some better preview options. It's all on my 2do list...