[wmwebdes]

Link to your site please Dave.

[wmwebdes]

My pleasure Suzanne

This one resolved then.

[wmwebdes]

No I haven't.
Head over to twitter and ask the gensis community about sites displaying author's work.

Ask under #genesiswp

The community will know what's available.

You might find this article useful.

create-an-ez-static-homepage/

[wmwebdes]

Suzan
Everything is possible with Genesis depending on your coding knowledge.

To show that it is possibe, this is my Minimum 2 site

Minimum 2 default homepage is a blog style homepage.
I customised my homepage to get the two rows that I wanted.

I have two rows of 3, you would require two rows of 4.

[wmwebdes]

Hi Suzan
On the Studiopress Minimum 2 demo site this is the CSS for the social media icons:

#home-featured a.icon-facebook, #home-featured a.icon-facebook:hover, #home-featured a.icon-google, #home-featured a.icon-google:hover, #home-featured a.icon-pinterest, #home-featured a.icon-pinterest:hover, #home-featured a.icon-twitter, #home-featured a.icon-twitter:hover {
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-webkit-border-radius: 50px;
background: #ddd url(images/icons.png);
border-radius: 50%;
display: block;
height: 140px;
margin: 0 auto 30px;
padding: 0;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: 140px;
}

The part that forms the circle is...
border-radius: 50%;

Play around with the percentage value to get the effect you want.

[wmwebdes]

Did you set the font colour in the SSI widget interface?

[wmwebdes]

Hi Laura
I'm using SSI and my text is fine in IE
See here http://www.wmwebdesign.co.uk/blog/

Have you changed any CSS recently?

Also - did you set the font colour in the SSI widget interface?

[wmwebdes]

Hi
FYI the suggested image size used on the demo site is 1440px x 900px.

Easiest solution is to find an image that you can crop / resize to those dimensions.

That's what I've done on 3 Metro sites and had no problems.

[wmwebdes]

Glad to help

You could try it with an image of the correct size as I have done on this site

Metro site

On this site I used pages not posts and modified the CSS to get the right effect.

Shall we say that this one is resolved Kay?

[wmwebdes]

If you don't know how to use firebug, check out this video by Carrie Dils

carriedils.com/firebug-demo-troubleshoot-css/

[wmwebdes]

No problem.

This one resolved then.

BTW that is an old version of the Executive theme - new one looks like this...

executive-2-0-genesis-child-theme-for-wordpress/

[wmwebdes]

This is what's stopping the text moving up...

.post-info, .post-meta {
clear: both;
line-height: 1.5;
}

It styles "MAY 3, 2013 BY SHERI SAVILL"

Take a look in Chrome developer tools or firebug and see what happens when you remove "clear: both;"

The text moves up.

[wmwebdes]

Have you set that image to "align - none" in the featured post widget?
If you have - try "align - float left"

[wmwebdes]

Can you post a link to your site Kay - would be helpful to take a look.

[wmwebdes]

Hi Glenn
Try adding a little more text to the "Bait" article.
See if it drives the widget below a little lower.

You need 3 lines of text and the "read more" on a 4th line.

[wmwebdes]

Sue
This is the CSS that displays the Education logo...

.header-image #title a {
background: url(images/logo.png) no-repeat center left;
}

You can add...
display: none;

So the selector description will be as below:

.header-image #title a {
background: url(images/logo.png) no-repeat center left;
display: none;
}

[wmwebdes]

Looks good Ed and a pleasure to help.

This one resolved then.

[wmwebdes]

Yes - start another thread, but read this first.
There are a few issues with using an image in the Metro theme.

Design Tip – Metro Theme Header

BTW - love your site!

[wmwebdes]

Great stuff.
If you change your mind you can just shuffle them around, alter the displayed menu text - whatever you like!
I love WordPress custom menus.

This one resolved then.

[wmwebdes]

You may prefer this video - shows you how to add dropdowns by dragging menu items.

http://blogbynumber.com/wordpress-custom-menu-tutorial-for-beginners/

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