Reply To: Changing the header background colour and gap between slider

This doesn’t affect the footer widget, this code is for the header right widget area…..is that what you meant?

The other part you’ll need to edit is the min-height for the title area. It has a minimum height of 164 (by default) so you can adjust this around line 1589 in your css –

.header-image .site-title a {
    float: left;
    min-height: 130px;
    width: 100%;
}

and that will bring the slider right up under the logo. You needed to remove the space from the header right widget area first and then the default height from the title area.

This is the end result – http://i.imgur.com/uCPllQq.jpg