Banner width

[Xanuran]

Forum URL: oras.freeforums.net

It's been a problem lately that the banners in all my themes have been too small to fit in the top of the forum. I tried looking around for an option to change the banner's width to be 75%, like the forum width, but found nothing. Does anyone know where I can find this option?

[Kami]

May 24, 2024 17:48:27 GMT -8 Xanuran said:

Forum URL: oras.freeforums.net

It's been a problem lately that the banners in all my themes have been too small to fit in the top of the forum. I tried looking around for an option to change the banner's width to be 75%, like the forum width, but found nothing. Does anyone know where I can find this option?

You can't change the banner's width like that -- it's just going to drop the quality of your image. Images have a finite size, so while you can make them smaller and not lose any quality, making a small image bigger is going to result in more blurriness / pixellation and lower quality.

The 75% you have your forum's width set to is 75% of the user's browser size; blowing up your image to be that size may not have the best appearance to everyone else. For example, I use an ultra-wide monitor. If my browser is maximum size, that means your forum is approximately 2600px wide, and your banner would then scale up to 2600px wide but with zero update to the quality of the image.

If you want the forum and the banner to always match in width, you need to set the width to a pixel amount (I would recommend 1200px as 1280px to 1366px are the most common screen widths). Alternatively, you need to create a banner with a transparent background, so it doesn't look out of place for not "filling" the banner area.