Please help an HTML-Challenged Blogger

I'm trying to stick a banner on my blog, and with this version of blogger it ain't easy, so if anyone out there knows exactly where in the html code I should go to tweak the margins, I would be forever indebted. I already tweaked it some, but now I am stuck, stuck stuck. What I did so far: Added the picture I created with Photoshop (and a photo of my knitting; resized to 750 pixels wide) using the Add Page Elements feature. Moved that to the top below the title, then changed the color of the title to match the background (don't want to remove the title so it shows up in search engines and anyway, can't remove it). Changed maxwidgets in header wrapper from 1 to 2 in the html code, and that's where i am. I checked a few forums and no one' directions match the code I see. Maybe I'll just learn to live with the cock-eyed banner.....

Blogger 2 and Other Headaches

I just found out that Blogger 2 asks for too many log-in steps when folks go to leave comments (I don't have that issue 'cause my computer "remembers" my log-in). Would you please let me know by e-mail (exptknitterATgmailDOTcom or click on the link on the sidebar) so I can document the tsuris to the powers that be at Blogger? And I'll put comments up too, if you'd like to include them in your e-mail. For being out of Beta, it sure is acting like it still is in Beta. Yesterday's post was sans pics for a while, do not know why, but I had to upload identical photos again. PITA, I tell ya.

Other major headache - my office and lab at the medical school are boiling away as we speak, the heat is driving me nuts. It's been this way for weeks. My computer overheats, poor thing, then I have to shut it down. Worse, my experiments are cooked, literally - my cells run fevers and I can't get the right data from them! Each experiment costs $$ in stuff to add, so it's not a trivial matter to just have do-overs all the time. Plus I am so uncomfortable, my face is burning up (rosacea), and I can't drink enough to stay hydrated. Plus I'm on tenterhooks 'cause the funding decision on one of my cancer grants was made early this week, but the results are not yet posted! Mine was ranked well enough to get the funding, but still it's nice to know for sure.

And yet, my husband's lab in another building has had no heat this week; the average temp in his lab has been 50 deg F. What say we call it a short, very short, day today?
Gives me more time for knitting....