Adding a Custom Widget Area to a WordPress Template – TwentyTwelve

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Validating_a_Website

you seem to have a few validation errors:
https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftestsite1.strongerwithjeng.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

start with fixing the content of the textwidget, then re-run the validator https://validator.w3.org/

I broke the entire thing beyond repair and had to delete the database and reinstall. So since I’m starting over (and I will validate before I come back with another question) what makes the most sense in terms of adding a row, above a header image (with the navigation below the header image and the site title/description not being displayed)? Does it make sense to add a widget area there and add via text widget or should it be a whole new div?

using a widget area makes sense if you need to be flexible with what you want to add above the header; if you then use a text widget or a custom menu widget, or whatever widgets, does not matter…

if you simply want to add a more or less static menu on the top, then hard-coding (or using any of the menu codes of WordPress) might be the easier option.

all in a child theme of course; https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Thank you so much. I’ve managed to get two widget areas in the header, one of them I’d like to line up with the logo and I can do that in CSS. I’ll try the hard-coding on the next site. I was able to add the two widget areas using the tutorial on your blog so that’s great and I appreciate it! The only part that was hard was figuring out how to name the widget areas, obviously I couldn’t just copy your example twice and have two different things, but I figured it out.