Header Image Size

Looks like you are using ThemeHall?
Great pictures!
There are a couple of ways to solve this problem.
Easiest is to change the size of the picture to 980 width in a photo editor.
OR
There are a couple of other ways to correct this.
If you are running a child theme you can add some css coding that would also solve the problem.
Using Firebug >> via Firefox check setting.

There are a couple of things you might consider doing:
Have the autumn picture on the static home page only, all other pages would not have this picture.
Reduce the resolution on the pictures to improve load time of all your pages.
Put a “Home” button on your menu
Hope this helps,

gk

Thanks for the tips! I think I’ll try to change the width on the header image.

Right now we like the header image on all pages, but may consider removing that.

How do you get the home button on the menu? I tried adding a page titled “home” and changing the permalink but that didn’t work.

I noticed the load times really lagging, will drop the res on the pics I think.

Thanks for the help and let me know if I should repost those other questions or just search on my own.

As you can tell I’m a total newb!

Thanks again!

You might need to experiment with this since you have a live site up and hopefully you are running something like WAMP or LAMP on you computer for your development site.

Make sure you have permalinks on “Post Name”

Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Select “Static Front Page” :Under Front page Display: “A Static Page” :Select the following: Front Page (i.e. Home) :and: Posts Page (i.e. Blog)
You might need to hunt a little if you don’t find these links. Each theme seems to have their own name and location for “Customize”

This can be a little tricky but experiment with it and when you find the correct combo on your test site do the same on your live site.

I would suggest trying to get your site to load in 3 seconds or less. There’s a couple things that will help:
Remove/delete all plugin’s that are not active
Use plugin Quick Cache (just enable it)
Reduce picture resolution (use pixlr.com it’s free)
Test speed at pindom.com/tools it’s free

Hope this helps,
gk

Thank you so much gkalus!

I fixed my image size with your help and I now have a home button. The site is looking better already.

I will look into some of your other suggestions below, thanks for the help!