Page Layout ⇒ move upper margin on the first page in article

[alien]

Hello dear community

I a newbie in LaTeX

I am creating a simple document with such settings

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} 
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[L7x]{fontenc}
\usepackage[lithuanian]{babel}
\usepackage[pdftex,unicode]

The document in attachment (it's just a scrap, I'll correct it)

How I can move upper margin? (in oder that the Header of the work would be higher

There are such commands like \textheight and \topmargin , I tried use them, but unsuccessfully. Where I should use them?

thanks in advance

[Johannes_B]

Many people dislike the standard title set by LaTeX, but everybody uses it. Why?

Don't use it at all:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
	\vspace*{-3cm}
	{\Large Shift the title up\par}
	\vspace{4ex}
	{\large alien, the nice guy\par
		\vspace{1\baselineskip}
		\today\par\vspace{2\baselineskip}
	}
\end{center}
\blindtext
\end{document}

[alien]

Johannes_B, Thank You a lot!!!!!!

I've made this

the result is here https://yadi.sk/i/1TDxIJY0iLjaQ

But how can I make the pages bigger? (on A4 it looks not very good)

There is command \enlargethispage{1cm} but I would like to move upper and bottom margins more and do not lose page's enumeration.

I am very grateful to You for Your help

[Johannes_B]

Load package geometry and then say \geometry{top=2cm,bottom=4cm}. The documentation files give you more hooks to handle.

[alien]

Johannes_B, Thank You very much!

It works!

best regards, Mike