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  • December 21, 2010 at 2:13 pm #20539
    Aaron Kendall
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    I got the header image to show up and stay put, thanks for all your help Scott. Just working on getting it formatted to fit the page a bit better, and will also use the Google map plug-in, great idea!

    December 21, 2010 at 4:00 pm #20540
    Shawn M. (he/him/his)
    Participant

    The header feature is pretty buggy, as it keeps resizing my header images as well (visible when refreshing the page). I suspect this is a residual effect from the former settings/images in place before the upgrade. For example, my rotating header images were taken out of my media section a while ago, yet they’re still in rotation. This suggests they were copied into a directory that we (as WPmu users) cannot access.

    I zeroed the header height as Scott suggested and inserted my [now static] header into one of the available horizontal bars. I used horizontal bar 1:

    height: 150px;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    background-image: url(http://nycnect.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2010/11/atahualpa_header_1.jpg);

    …no translucent overlays on the side, but I’m willing to live with that until this bug gets hammered out. Thanks for your help, Scott.

    December 21, 2010 at 4:51 pm #20541
    Shawn M. (he/him/his)
    Participant

    Rowena,

    It looks like your problem is caused by the ‘Fade in/out header images with Javascript’ option. When I set this to 0, the title overlay doesn’t disappear. Another bug I guess.

    December 21, 2010 at 5:10 pm #20542
    Rowena Li
    Member

    Thanks, Shawn. I am going to change the Fade in/out option to 0 tonight and see. Also, do you know how to get ride of the two gray lines behind? I am going to upload my own pictures to see what will happen. Thanks a million.

    December 21, 2010 at 8:13 pm #20543
    Scott Voth (he/him)
    Member

    Hi – Please see the attached. There is some sort of background image that the authors put in the background. If you remove it, you will get rid of those lines. Hope this helps!

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    December 21, 2010 at 8:14 pm #20544
    Scott Voth (he/him)
    Member

    (Screenshot above is after removing the background image.)

    December 21, 2010 at 8:19 pm #20545
    Scott Voth (he/him)
    Member

    Hi Shawn – Boone is going to put in a fix for that theme that should resolve the resizing. I will let you know when it’s done. Thanks for helping out!

    December 21, 2010 at 11:21 pm #20546
    Rowena Li
    Member

    Thanks, Scott. I deleted the background image.

    December 21, 2010 at 11:57 pm #20547
    Daisy (Domínguez) Singh (she)
    Participant

    Thanks, Scott and also everyone else for all the questions. I was so excited to be able to customize with just a few clicks. I actually haven’t even tried this with my other blog which is hosted outside the Commons so I’m going to have to experiment there, too. Thanks so much!

    December 22, 2010 at 11:03 am #20548
    Rowena Li
    Member

    Shawn, Thanks for your advice. Now I changed the setting, so that the blog title doesn’t overlap over the photos.

    December 22, 2010 at 1:03 pm #20549
    Sarah Morgano
    Participant

    Hi everyone,

    Boone just posted on the CUNY Academic Commons Development blog that he released Commons 1.1.6 which, “improves the way that the Atahualpa theme handles custom headers” (http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/22/commons-1-1-6/). Hopefully, this should resolve issues that folks have been experiencing with their blogs.

    Best,

    Sarah

    December 22, 2010 at 1:06 pm #20550
    Aaron Kendall
    Participant

    Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback. I’m finally getting really close to having my blog header fixed, with only one issue remaining…the header image is covering up the title and tagline. I have my header image in the logo area and the header height set to zero. Any ideas?

    December 22, 2010 at 1:30 pm #20551
    Daisy (Domínguez) Singh (she)
    Participant

    Hey Aaron,

    Not sure if this is the answer, but under the Style and Edit Header Area tab, do you have Show Blog Title and Show Blog Tagline set to “yes”?

    D

    December 22, 2010 at 1:37 pm #20552
    Aaron Kendall
    Participant

    Hi Daisy, yes I do have that value set to “yes”. I feel like the problem may be that I have my header image as part of the logo and not the actual header, with my header height set to “0”. This prevents any header formatting. However, due to all the glitches with Atahualpa, that was the only way I could even get my header image to show up. I see now that Boone has possibly fixed these issues with the recent Commons upgrade; so maybe I should just start from scratch and put the image back into the header and see what happens.

    December 22, 2010 at 1:38 pm #20553
    Shawn M. (he/him/his)
    Participant

    The banner graphic is actually pushing your title to the right, since the logo div was only meant for smaller graphics. I would move your banner to one of the available horizontal bars instead (mentioned in a previous post).

    …but it sounds like Boone fixed the bug by updating Commons, so you could revert back to placing your header graphic where it was originally intended.

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