Tried and true solutions are not working! Pleeeease help...

First off, I always want to thank you guys first and foremost because the support and help in getting these issues resolved have been nothing less than wonderful, and I truly thank you all for your time and kindness to help. 

I have tried multiple solutions that have been previously posted here, which actually worked in my other Dolphin site. Have there been updates that have changed some things where those solutions may no longer work? 

All I need is for the "Welcome" or "Hello,  _________" messages which appear on the home page, to disappear. I was able to make the grey bar to disappear, but a new icon and greeting appeared instead above the image reloader, rather than over it. 

Could someone pleeeeeease check my attachment, and tell me how to get rid of the issue in question? Looking at the attachment, you'll see what I'm talking about, and it should be an easy fix for the resident experts. 

THANK you so much, and have a great Valentines Day! 

PS- I do not know code and am a newbie, so please be concise and clear, and take it slow. :)

I am updating my nerd site with new tutorials and I came across that the other day.

1. Take out the avatar in the welcome promo block, try this:

Open up the file BxBaseIndexPageView.php located in templates/base/scripts.

2. Search for the following line of code (it's on or about line 470):

$sWelcomeElement = '<div class="label_thumbnail">' . get_member_thumbnail($aInfo['ID'], "left", false) . '</div><div class="label_thumb">' . _t('_Hello member', $aInfo['NickName']) . '</div><div class="clear_both"></div>';

3. Comment it out so it looks like this.

//$sWelcomeElement = '<div class="label_thumbnail">' . get_member_thumbnail($aInfo['ID'], "left", false) . '</div><div class="label_thumb">' . _t('_Hello member', $aInfo['NickName']) . '</div><div class="clear_both"></div>';

Just in case, clear the cache and refresh.

jtadeo-  Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but the only difference I see between #2 and #3 of your suggestion is that the first 2 "slashes" need to be added, is this correct? Then this will be resolved? Sorry, but I'm not sure what "comment it out" means...  :(

EDIT-  Never mind!  That worked perfectly!  WOW, THANK YOU!!!!!

First off, there are no dumb questions. You only know what you know ;)

Anyway, yes. The "//" will comment out the line and it will inhibit the avatar and css from displaying. It's a PHP comment line.

Try it out and see. That's what I did for my site.

jtadeo-  Any reason this would cause my image reloader to stop working? I just post a new topic about it, but my reloader works perfectly with 1 image, but all images disappear and my html block moves right up under my menu bar when I add any additional images.  Any idea why my image reloader images disappear when more than 1 image is loaded?  Thanks again for all your help! :)

If you haven't modified anything else, it should work fine. Here's an example that I did on my nerd site. Notice that when you are guest, you don't see the login and join buttons. You also don't see the translucent bar.

If you login as a member, the same is true.

I am compiling a list of Top 10 Dolphin Tutorials and if you have a special request post in my blog there.

Oh my gosh, this is maddening. So, this solution worked perfectly, and still does...  in Firefox.  I just tested out the site in IE and now the "Welcome to the community" message and the join/login buttons are there, but ONLY in IE.  ARGH!  Help!  Anybody have any ideas why???

When I first started with Dolphin, "maddening"  and Dolphin seemed to best describe my initial experience too ...lol..

erm... for the IE issue, the browser may be caching your page. Try clearing the browser cache. The other thing you can do is also clear the cache for your Dolphin site via your admin. Then reload your site.

If it works in FireFox, it should work in all browsers (at least things showing up)

And finally, sometimes (at least for me) I find that I've worked a page so much that it's best to take a break or start new.

Hang in there, it gets easier.

If you haven't already taken a look, there is a good set of tutorials by ggsinc. Take a look at:

http://www.boonex.com/n/tutorial-how-to-personalize-your-dolphin-site-2012-02-14

There are tutorials there by other members and going through them may help you in the future.

Thanks JT- I kept having weird little bugs, so darnit, did a fresh install.  Everything seems to be as it should, including my image reloader now finally working.  You have been great. Thank you so much!