Banner pic question

[groundhog66]

I'm in the process of putting together a nice pic for the banner, but I have a question. How do you know how wide to make the pic, it seems the banner will widen depending on the size of screen it's being viewed on. My forum is very new, so I'm just getting things figured out. Is there a good way to set the width of the forum window? Thank you in advance for any help.

[Tumbleweed]

It's always best if you can set the width to a percentage, but adding a graphic for a banner means it may get cut off if someone has a smaller resolution than the width of your banner.  I don't know if you have a lot of members but you could take a poll on what screen res most have and go from there.

The most popular screen res is 1366x768 but I'd suggest you go with a touch smaller graphic width for those using 1280x800. So maybe set your forum with to 1280 and see if you are happy with that and make a banner accordingly? Totally up to you.

[Anaiu]

Not to butt in, but I found this code extremely useful on my site. We have members who use everything between 800 x 600 to television screens with gigantic resolutions, so this code allowed us maximum flexibility.

/* Logo scales with Forum Width */
#banner { height: 100%; padding: 0px; }
#banner-container, #banner { display: block; }
a#logo img { max-width: 100%; }
a#logo { font: inherit; }
#banner { margin-bottom: -3px; }

One of the admins gave this code to me... I'm not sure who wrote it in the first place, though. :/