Thank you for your comment. We all were LaTeX beginners at some time. Concerning your question, you could use foot commands of fancyhdr or scrpage, further change the relation to the current page node, like south west instead of north west. Here’s the comment #11 modified with this intention:

\documentclass[svgnames]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[automark]{scrpage2}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*\tikzhead[1]{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
    \node at (current page.south west)
      {\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
        \draw[fill=LightSkyBlue] (0,0) rectangle
          (\paperwidth,2cm);
        \node[anchor=east,xshift=.9\paperwidth,
              yshift=2cm,rectangle,
              rounded corners=15pt,inner sep=11pt,
              fill=MidnightBlue]
              {\color{white}#1};
       \end{tikzpicture}
      };
   \end{tikzpicture}}
\clearscrheadings
\ifoot{\tikzhead{Page \thepage}}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Stefan

that’s no problem if you would use the titlesec package, try this example:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\fontsize{80pt}{90pt}\selectfont\bfseries}
  {\thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

titlesec provides many features to customize chapter headings. The fncychap package offers more chapter heading styles.

Stefan

I’m a LaTeX noobie just started working with it.
I want to have a chapter title without the chapter part and a big number instead of a small. I found out how to do the first part, but i cant get a bigger number.

i want this for example:

“a big number” 2.
title name: Introduction

tnx.

of course you can add it, feel free to use the code. Perhaps provide a link back to this page allowing the visitors of your blog to read the discussion and examples here as well.

Best regards,

Stefan

I am currently writing on my Uni thesis and because I really enjoy good looking layouts and liked your idea, I was wondering if you could answer me two questions (Please not that I am fairly new to Latex):

1. Is it possible to split the chapter number and chapter name into 2 different boxes?

2. Can I fill the big lightskyblue box with external pictures (i.e. jpgs or similar)?

Thank you
Jennifer

You could just use \\ or \newline to break the line inside the \parbox. Perhaps show a minimal example that shows the problem in detail, the code example would allow to give really appropriate help.

Stefan