Changing the height for the header went without a hitch. The appearance is suitable for my needs. See attached screen shot.
The actual logo image pnp height is 250 px and I changed header height to 252px. I Changed the header-logo height to 250px and width to 736px get what is shown in the screen shot.
I do like the design look of
http://loveisreal-believe.com/ is close to the appearance I'm actually looking for pertinent to location of the cart-block and the social icon block. However, I would like to retain the blue background on the right side of the logo at about the same width as it is on the left with the ble background for the login, cart, search being as it appears on
http://loveisreal-believe.com/.
It's a low priority design change at the moment though as it's a bit more code change involved. However, I will eventually give it a design modification try.
BTW, I got to give a thumbs up to the functionality. robustness and ease to use of Abantecart. The extension (templates, utility, productivity) concept is brilliant (although I've not purchased any yet). I'm having fun learning how to configure and change through the admin control panel and getting products loaded.