Support Threads

First off, here is our site, http://firstagraytown.com/ You can see I’m using a black background for the menu, with the hero widget below beginning the page content. My question is this–is there a way to get that site logo/menu to overlay the slider? I was previously using the standard WP header which accomplished this, but…

Using the hero widget, I have several images in a slider with headline text and sub-headline text, etc. I’ve set my fonts to white (#ffffff) in everything…header, text, links, etc. and my text still comes out grayish. What could be my problem.