Saturday, December 10, 2011

WTF, Blogger?

OK, I've tried several times, but I can't get my title picture to stretch all the way across the screen like it's supposed to.  I unchecked the "shrink to fit" box when importing a photo for the title section of the blog, but it still shows up shrunken.  I did this for my old photo, and I tried it with a new photo (visible in the wrong place above).

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

EDIT: OK, now the photo is behind the title, but the words in the title are now in a smaller area.  What's going on?
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5 comments:

  1. Don MDecember 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    no idea what's been going on with
    blogger lately

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  2. scottszDecember 10, 2011 at 3:29 PM

    Google's probably doing more 'behind the scenes changes'...

    It looks like the header pic is displaying correctly, but the header text is adjusting to the width of the image.

    I made up two options to try. Go to the links below and download both images to your desktop - then re-upload them through your Blogger interface to your site.

    The first is just the image stretched out to 1024 pixels:
    SGDN_title_stretched.jpg

    The second keeps the spaceship the same size, but the image background is kept transparent and is 1024 pixels wide.
    SGDN_title_transp.png

    The second one may look better with the starfield background, but is a much larger file size.

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  3. MatgcDecember 10, 2011 at 3:46 PM

    The blogger is a nut case. Sometimes it shows the members of my blog as being 8, and sometimes 13.

    Unless those 5 extra guys are repeatedly leaving and rejoining my blog,something is wrong...

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  4. CounterFettDecember 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM

    I had the same problem (still do, for that matter), what I had to do was do a screen capture and paste it to paint to get the right 'size' and edit my title header into that, then just use a little trial and error to make it fit.

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  5. Dan EastwoodDecember 10, 2011 at 9:18 PM

    I had troubles with this too. CounterFett's screen capture method is a good idea, because you can create the image so that is won't be stretched at all. I finally gave up trying to get Blogger to display my blog title the way I wanted, and added it directly to the image instead. I even tinkered with image layers so that I could have one of the Battlemechs out in front of the text (http://giantbattlingrobots.blogspot.com/).

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