Logo image and Primary links, header table structure

That's awesome! Thanks! I'll tinker now :-)

ARG! I can not figure it out :-<

I see a colspan="2" on the logo cell, but if I delete that and make the menu bar span 3 rows (which is logo/site name[not present]/search), then the menu bar disappears altogether for some reason. And I've tried adjusting the CSS lines which effect this area, but no help. I'd love to use this menu bar, but I don't like that it starts so far over.

No, it's actually a rowspan="2" that's making the dead space, but then when I delete that the entire row of buttons disappears for some reason. It's probably a combo of the table structure and the css together. If I get time I may need to completely rewrite the header of the theme to make it work right.

I tried above, but it shoved the link off the bar and into the white area of the page (which made it disappear being white text). SO, I thought about WHY the logo area spanned two rows. The original (Drupal) logo (on this theme) drops down into that black bar by default, but it's not very wide, so the home link is probably right against the Drupal logo on default. However, my logo is wider which makes the cell wider pushing the link over. So, since I don't use "Site name" or "Site slogan" on this theme I switched the content in their cells. Doing so made the first cell of this table basically disappear since their is no content in them, which allows the home link to be pushed all the way over. And my logo is now in the second cell which you can't tell it's in a second cell since their basically is no first cell. (Hope this makes sense).

This...
[logo][.][search]
[.......][primary links]

Became...
[.][logo][search]
[.][primary links]

Original

<tr>
    <td id="logo" valign=top rowspan=2>
      <?php if ($logo) { ?><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><img src="<?php print $logo ?>" alt="<?php print t('Home') ?>" /></a><?php } ?>
  </td>
  <td id="site_name">
      <?php if ($site_name) { ?><h1 class='site-name'><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><?php print $site_name ?></a></h1><?php } ?>
      <?php if ($site_slogan) { ?><div class="site-slogan"><?php print $site_slogan ?></div><?php } ?>
    </td>
    <td id="site_search">
      <?php print $search_box ?>
  </td>
</tr>

New

<tr>
    <td id="logo" valign=top rowspan=2>
      <?php if ($site_name) { ?><h1 class='site-name'><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><?php print $site_name ?></a></h1><?php } ?>
      <?php if ($site_slogan) { ?><div class="site-slogan"><?php print $site_slogan ?></div><?php } ?>
      
  </td>
  <td id="site_name">
      <?php if ($logo) { ?><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><img src="<?php print $logo ?>" alt="<?php print t('Home') ?>" /></a><?php } ?>
    </td>
    <td id="site_search">
      <?php print $search_box ?>
  </td>
</tr>

Issue Resolved (as long as you don't use slogan or name)

I understand row vs col.

I did not take a screenshot when I tested #6, but trust that for some reason it pushed the home link off the black BG and into the white BG so that you could no longer see it.

As stated in #8, the original logo took up two rows creating...

[.drupal.][name/slogan][search]
[..logo..][primary/scondry links]

So he drupal logo took up two rows and the links took up two cols. I tried #6 many times, but for some reason it simply did not work like you would think it should. So, since I did not use the name or slogan, my solution did this...

[_][my logo____][search]
[_][primary/scondry links]

So, there's still a colspan of 2 in the first td, but since they are blank, my logo and menu go to the far left and you would never know they were there.

I changed #logo to 88px and it didn't help either.

Yes, edit two files:

themes/pixture/style.css
sites/default/files/color/pixture/style.css

(in both) look for

#menu {
	height: 32px;
	vertical-align: center;
	padding-left: 0px;
	text-align: left;
}

and change padding-left to however far out you want it to appear.