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August 7, 2014 at 2:12 pm #117638Carla the MooseMember
The site is here: WEBSITE
When I used Safari's developer tool, I could see that the Minimum theme is using 1366 x 422 for the background image dimensions. So I sized a text image accordingly and uploaded it.
The StudioPress site instructions say to size images to 1600 x 600.
Neither seem to work for some reason. No matter what I do, the image is zoomed in and only a portion of what I uploaded is displaying.
But when you open Safari's developer tool, the background image sizes to the correct dimensions. I don't understand what is happening. I deactivated maintenance mode and would appreciate your feedback.
Thank you.
August 9, 2014 at 12:02 pm #117939Carla the MooseMemberI thought I would try again.
I can't continue work on my site because of this problem. The placeholder image is magnified for some reason. Only when I open the developer's tool does it display correctly.
I tried sizing the image to the 1600 x 600 recommended on the StudioPress theme notes page, and I tried resizing it according to the dimensions of that space shown in the developer tool.
But it does the same thing no matter what.
I'll send a support ticket, but they will probably tell me it's a design issue and they can't help.
Any suggestions?
I've cleared the cache, everything is up to date, etc.
August 9, 2014 at 12:13 pm #117942Carla the MooseMemberI sent a support ticket, but I just noticed something that somehow (strangely) could be causing the problem.
When viewed in Firefox, the huge and slow-loading placeholder image cuts off the 'Carole Price' image logo at the top left. I followed a simple tutorial to increase the size of the site title space and loaded an image instead of using text.
That's pretty much the only change I've made to this site, aside from fonts.
Also, in Firefox the same thing happens when the inspector tool is opened. The header image reduces down in size to how it should be displaying. Otherwise I only see a zoomed version.
August 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm #117960Carla the MooseMemberHello Wiggles!
Why, hello there, friend! How's it going?
Oh, you know. This, that and the other!
:o))
Anyhoo, note to self . . .
So I uninstalled and deleted the Minimum theme, and then installed a fresh copy. Some interesting things happened.
1) When you use text for the site title, it breaks onto another line because of the narrow width.
2) But it doesn't do this when I'm using an image for the site title.
3) Without having made ANY changes to the fresh install, the site title image loaded without any problems. But if you use text that matches the width of the image, it breaks onto another line. Why?
4) The fresh install erased the problem of the site title image being cut off in Firefox. Whew!
5) The header image problem was not fixed. I am totally perplexed. This is should be super easy to work with. It's gotta be something I'm doing. But what?
6) All I'm doing is cropping the huge image to the dimensions mentioned on StudioPress's tutorial page. And I've tried other dimensions as well, and it only displays a zoomed image.
7) To see the image correctly, I have to activate the inspector tool.
I would love some help, folks. I'm using Pixelmator to crop the image and am doing the cropping in pixels.
August 9, 2014 at 7:20 pm #118006Carla the MooseMemberThere's something about how this theme renders the background image that's causing the problem.
This is a responsive theme, but it looks like the background image is not responsive. It seems to stretch the image no matter what size I'm using. And depending on screen size, the amount of the image that displays is not the same.
I can make the background image responsive. I'm hoping that will fix the size problem.
I'd love some input on this.
Thanks!
August 20, 2014 at 4:16 pm #120088lorireedMemberI'm having the exact same problem and about to give up on this theme.
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