[Jami Howard Mays]

I don't understand your first question.

Your PS is http://www.gravatar.com - your Gravatar is linked to your email address, so when you use that email address on a WordPress installation, the picture comes with it.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Also, http://www.genesistweaks.com is a great resource for simple changes if you don't have a relationship with a designer currently.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

body.custom-background {
background-color: #eeeeee;
background-image: url('http://itsawahmlife.com/wp-content/themes/scribble/images/bg.png');
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: top left;
background-attachment: fixed;
}

You'll want to comment out the background image and change the background color to #fff

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Sounds like you are looking for a menu that displays content conditionally.

Googling brought me this link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-menu/

Looks like it'll work just like widget logic, but in a menu. So you'd create your big menu that would contain all the page info and then you'd set each item to have conditions.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Sorry, I think the confusion might be that the child theme you're using is not HTML5.

From your stylesheet:

/*
    Theme Name: peakfunding Child Theme
	Theme URI: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/agency
	Description: Agency is a two or three column child theme created for the Genesis Framework.
    Author: StudioPress
    Author URI: http://www.studiopress.com/
 
    Version: 2.0
 
    Tags: black, blue, gray, silver, white, dark, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, fixed-width, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, featured-images, full-width-template, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments
 
    Template: genesis
    Template Version: 1.8

The Agency Child theme you're using is Version 2.0 of Agency, but it's based on the 1.8 version of Genesis. An easy way to recognize if a Genesis child theme is HTML5 is when the title of the theme has Pro on the end. Here's the Genesis Agency Pro Child Theme -- http://my.studiopress.com/themes/agency/ -- super different from yours. So, even though you've updated your Genesis Parent theme, your child theme is not HTML5.

I'd suggest a magazine style layout because you have a lot of page content -- it might be a better way to present lots of information on a homepage without having to rely so heavily on your sidebar.

For example, on the Attorneys page, there's this big gaping white space below the page content because the sidebar is so long.

You may also do well with two sidebars (primary and secondary) so that your site isn't covering so much vertical space.

From a design perspective, the site looks dated and I think a refresh is in order. Have you looked at Metro Pro? Magazine Pro?

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

This is a great article -- http://www.mightyminnow.com/2013/11/what-is-mobile-first-css-and-why-does-it-rock/

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Let me make sure I'm following this: you want to use the theme on your website, the link in your signature line, make some changes to it and use it for your friend's website?

Personally, I'd pick a newer theme, something that is built with Genesis 2.0 and is HTML5 ready.

Here are a few inspiration points though, if you decide to stick with your theme, via the StudioPress Showcase:

http://www.studiopress.com/showcase/3b-upfit
http://www.studiopress.com/showcase/vineyard-advising
http://www.studiopress.com/showcase/scribble-linens
http://www.studiopress.com/showcase/cloud-9-confections

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Hey there - Can you share a link to the site you're working on? More than likely, I can inspect it and give you the direct code.

And, re: the second option, are you wanting the background image to be clickable?

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

I'm not seeing anything that looks unusual. Maybe I'm not understanding the problem. Can you provide a couple of screenshots to show me what you want it to look like vs. what its looking like?

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

I can't really help you without a url. I don't know what your url is...

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

The slider in the old AgentPress wasn't in the header, but sat in it's own widget. I'm not positive about it, but AgentPress Pro is pretty dang similar to Carrie Dils' Winning Agent theme -- and in that one, it's just a text widget at the top of the page - so you could probably put a slider in there, but you'd likely need to do a touch of styling.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Good luck!

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

It's here, looks like:

#header {
background: #e7eceb url(images/header-bg-pattern.png) repeat-x bottom center;
margin: 0 auto;
/* min-height: 107px; */
min-width: 998px;
overflow: hidden;
padding-bottom: 40px;
}

I think it's the padding bottom here.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

The tutorial you linked to is pretty old (November 2012). The issues you're having may be traced back to it, though I haven't used that tutorial personally so I'm not sure.

A better tutorial, and one that I've tried, is Jessica Barnard's http://thepixelista.com/responsive-genesis-child-theme-logo/

I looked at your site on mobile and I'm not seeing where it looks awful. Can you be more specific?

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Can you provide us with a link? You may have to login via FTP to disable the theme folder to do more troubleshooting.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

The height and width are connected ratio-wise... If you make the height smaller, rather than distort the logo image to smoosh the height and maintain the width, the width will naturally ease with the height. The trick is to find the balance between the two.

It's hard to explain image aspect ratios, so I'll defer to this screencast which, though it's shopify and isn't exactly topical to your header image, should help explain the aspect ratio issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiWFh0xUmw4

If your media query breakpoints are, based on your stylesheet:

960
800
600
460
400
300
240

Then you need to sort out the math, based on your header size. It's like, AUGH, algebra. I thought I'd never use you! 🙂

Header Width x Header Height
900 x ?
800 x ?
etc etc

I use Chrome Developer Tools instead of Firebug, but the process it the same. Here's a screenshot where I've set the min-height to 120. Sometimes, it's easier for me to just fiddle with things in developer tools rather than do the math.

Did you set your media query breakpoints or is that how it comes with the theme?

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

I think it's probably not a good idea to do posts instead of pages -- you're trying to use them against their intended purpose. If you created a menu with your posts, you'd have to go through and add a new menu item every time you wrote a new post -- not impossible, but not the best use either.

Here's the best analogy I've come up with:

Pages are like loose-leaf sheets of paper. We use menus to put them in groups (stapling the looseleaf pages together) and we can use sidebar widgets like the Genesis Featured Page widget to stick particular pages up in the sidebar/footer of our site (like pushing a thumbtack through a specific page).

Posts are more like pages inside a three-ring binder. They can pulled out individually, but they can also be read, "cover to cover" in chronological order. We can also reorder the posts based on taxonomies, like tags or categories (think of these like tabbed dividers in your three ring binder). So, I can pull out all of the posts that are about, for example, "animals" using the animals tag, sort them by date and put them back in a three ring binder.

If your content is such that it could be read cover-to-cover, page-turning style, then posts makes more sense. If your content is such that each page is independent from one another, then you should use pages.

Pages and Posts are equally as valuable and have the same search quality within your site.

You could, if you wanted, use the Featured Posts Widget in a sidebar and create a list of your posts - just don't make the featured image or content visible, only the title - but that wouldn't make them a drop down.

Also, consider your user's experience -- if your user clicks on a drop down and you've got 5 posts in the menu, it's not too difficult to navigate. If your user opens the drop down menu and there's dozens of post titles, some pushing themselves onto more than one line, your user isn't going to have a great experience with that.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Can you provide a link? I haven't experienced this, but a link would help with diagnosing the problem.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Are you familiar with firebug or Chrome developer tools? I'd figure out what you want your media queries to be -- you can find the declared values in your stylesheet and that should be sufficient in giving you an idea of your media breakpoints.

If you play with the header min-height in firebug or Chrome developer tools, you can find the "just right" size that you prefer.

Also, I really don't love the StudioPress responsive tool -- I prefer, for a general view, http://ami.responsivedesign.is/ and for a more specific view, I have a subscription to BrowserStack (a bit pricy, but it saves me SO much time when designing for resonsiveness).

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

[Jami Howard Mays]

Have you considered a membership plugin instead of an ecommerce solution? Maybe a membership plugin would do a better job of screening the content online to only paid members. How often does the magazine come out?

Under the advanced tab in a woocommerce product page editor, you'll see an option for a purchase note. You could include a url here...?

But it may work out best, if you're using WooCommerce, to create a PDF with live links that they download when they purchase.

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Jami Howard Mays, HBIC, Imaj Works | Athens, Georgia

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