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  • #16039
    GeoUser
    Customer

      Hello Everyone,

      This is my first post here…and just started trying to use Epik, and have a question about something that’s probably easy, but I’m not a skilled developer, so can’t figure it out…I hope someone here will help.

      On the Home page, I don’t want a slider at the top…instead I want to use a large image near the top of the page.

      I’ve tried putting an 1140 x 400 image (using a text widget) into both the “Slider Wide” and the “Slider” widget areas, and my image shows up, but it doesn’t even come close to filling the area as I had wanted it to.

      So you can see what I’m talking about, I’ve uploaded an image that shows the way I *want* the page to look:
      http://imgur.com/6Oc4wAM

      I want the image to fill the area just as the slider would fill the area.

      Please help me with this…I would appreciate your help. Thank you.

      #16041
      Andykev
      Customer

        Your image needs to go into the “Slider Wide” to easily make it full width. The regular slider is set at 1140px.

        /* Slider Wide
        --------------------------------------------- */
        
        .slider-wide {	
            clear: both;
            width: 100%;
        }
        
        .slider-wide .wrap {
            margin: 0 auto 20px;
            padding: 30px 0 0;
            max-width: 100%;	
        }
        
        .slider-wide .widget {
        	margin: 0 0 20px;
        }
        
        .slider-wide .flexslider .slides img {
        	width: 100% !important;
        }
        
        .slider-wide .flexslider {
        	max-width: 100% !important;
        }
        
        /* Slider
        --------------------------------------------- */
        
        .slider {	
            clear: both;
        }
        
        .slider .wrap {
            margin: 0 auto 20px;
            padding: 0;
            width: 1140px;	
        }
        
        .slider .widget {
        	margin: 0 0 20px;
        }
        

        See the part where .slider .wrap { ..shows the width:1140px.? The slider wide is max-width: 100%; which means it takes a full width image.

        I use the Black Studio Tiny MCE widget plugin. It allows you to edit inside any widget by using a “Visual Editor”, just like any post or page edit. Much easier than the “text” alone.

        So insert an image into the SLIDER WIDE widget with dimensions of width 100% and height to suit you.

        #16044
        GeoUser
        Customer

          Hello Andykev,
          Thanks so much for this information, and for the CSS stuff. I’ll go and see if I can figure out what to do with it all, and I’ll let you know. Thanks again for putting this together for me…thank you.

          #16045
          Andykev
          Customer

            You don’t need to “mess” with the CSS. Just use the appropriate widget for your needs, and format the image to fit the space.

            If you do change the CSS, ALWAYS have a backup copy (copy, paste) to a text file. Then you can go back and restore or fix any changes.

            #16046
            GeoUser
            Customer

              Hi Andykev,

              Thanks for the additional note. After I started looking at it, I realized that I didn’t have to do anything with the CSS…so that was good.

              Then I set up an image at 1140 x 440 pixels, and added it into the “SliderWide” widget…and changed the width from “1140” to “100%”…but obviously I’m doing it wrong, because even though the image appears on the page, it doesn’t get wider as the browser window gets wider. Not sure what I should do next.

              If it helps, heres the URL:
              http://moodyriver.com

              Thanks for any help.

              #16047
              Andykev
              Customer

                Your code is this:
                <img kasperskylab_antibanner="on" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11" src="http://www.moodyriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/stonecircle.jpg" alt="stonecircle" height="440" width="100%">

                When you insert the image into the textbox (which you put into this widget area), you should set the image to align center. Do this by using
                <center><*YOUR IMAGE GOES HERE - LINK*></center>

                The image is sized at 1140px. You need to use a much bigger image. Size it 1980px wide. You are asking that the image be “100%”..and it is making your image just that. However, your image is 1140px so at 100% that is what you get. Put the whopping big image in there, and at 100% it will fill the area.

                #16048
                GeoUser
                Customer

                  Andykev,

                  You’re a lifesaver…thanks again for helping.

                  It didn’t occur to me that the image should be larger…I thought maybe it should just be the size of the slider images, which I thought I saw a note somewhere that the recommended size for that was 1140px wide.

                  So I set up a new image to 1980px wide, as you suggested, and added the other things you mentioned, and now it looks like it’s working.

                  Is there a setup guide for this theme that explains things like that? I’ve looked at the “sticky note” things here, but don’t remember seeing anything about that.

                  OK, so it’s working now…thanks again.

                  #16049
                  Andykev
                  Customer

                    Glad it worked out. The fun is the “puzzle” and being creative!

                    You can also change the background color in any widget, as well as change the padding. If you notice, you have a gray band at the top and bottom. That is the “padding”. You can change the numbers for that to reduce the “BLANK” space. There are posts here in the Community Forum showing you how to do that.

                    #16051
                    GeoUser
                    Customer

                      AndyKev…thanks for the additional note. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get the padding straightened out. My pea brain can only handle so much excitement in one day. 馃檪

                      #16052
                      GeoUser
                      Customer
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                        #16063
                        GeoUser
                        Customer

                          Hello,

                          I’m back again with another problem. I’m a print designer who occasionally creates web sites, and my “coding skills” aren’t the greatest, and so when I noticed the gaps at top and bottom of my large image, it took awhile for me to determine what was causing the gaps, but I managed to find the padding and margin settings that were causing the gaps, and I altered my styles.css file to alleviate the problem.

                          My changes seem to have totally eliminated the gap at the top of my large image. And my changes eliminated *part* of the gap below the large image.

                          But there is still a bit of a gap below the large image, and no matter now hard I look, I can’t see the reason for the gap being there.

                          Not sure what to do next…can you help, please? Thanks.

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