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Hi boss – loving your work.

But still struggling with this concept that one image size works everywhere via scaling. The pre-defined image sizes are a case in point: the thumbnails are almost square but most other image instances will likely be landscape (or portrait) – so scaling a landscape format image to a near square format leaves some cropping decisions to the machine, which might not crop optimally based on the subject of the image.

I would love to know more about the algorithms used for re-sizing and cropping…unless they are a trade secret.

I would also be grateful to know what are the maximum pixel widths (excluding Sliders) which will fit into the two main sections of my single sidebar layout without scaling or forcing the adjoining section to resize?

Thank you again.

I’ll try it your way, acub (when that day comes – it’s some way off). I use Fetch on my Mac which I am at least reasonably familiar with.

At what stage and how do I change my site name from its dev url of localhost:8888/sitename to livewebsite.com? Will one of your tools do it for me and resolve all my internal links?

Thanks acub but this had no discernible effect either, even at 50%.

We’re very close now, acub. My image is no longer faint. And I can move it (too far) upwards by adding top: 0; which still doesn’t align it with the text but it looks better above than below.

I tried different values for “top” but they don’t alter the position.

Here (including the code) is a screen grab of the only two positions I have managed to get:

https://s1008.photobucket.com/user/3785/media/public/pageiconposition.png.html

It’s on my localhost. Can I post some code or screen grab?

Thanks acub – I’ll try again. The member who posted that code did say it was a bit of a tortuous workaround. But it seemed to work.

Hm, this has no discernible effect on my layout (when pasted into Custom CSS). I tried various values up to 120px.

I have a full-width slider on the page I’m monitoring. Would that complicate things?

Many thanks, downtimeinc.

Thanks Andrew.

Does someone please have the HEX code of the default background colour?

OK, I have tried with the Page Icon hidden code active and with that Snippet deleted and get the same result both ways.

It’s very close to working for me. I’m seeing two issues…

Firstly, the new image isn’t aligned with the page text title – it is approx 50% shifted down, ie the top of the image aligns with the middle of the text and the bottom of the image is 50% below the bottom of the text – in fact lower than the bottom of the original Page Icon.

Secondly, the image seems to be inheriting transparency from somewhere because it’s very faint. The Snippet I used to hide the hide the Page Icon did rely on opacity (see below) but I deleted and saved before trying your code without it.

.format-icon:before {
	speak: none;
  text-transform: none;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  padding-right: 10px;
  opacity: 0.2;
  position: relative;
  top: 8px;
  display: none;
  font: normal normal 1.2em/1 'entypo';

Nothing else in my custom CSS includes opacity.

Thank you, Dave – and it’s free for the first three sites, so that could last me a lifetime.

I’ve had a quick read and it looks good – and your recommendations aren’t given lightly. My main worry is that I apparently would have to delete my MAMP (which took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to install). What happens to my site when its oxygen is cut off? Presumably I move it to a folder on my hard drive and relocate it somewhere within Desktop Server’s directories once I instal it?

Please ignore if too off topic.

Wow, thanks – that looks like a thing of beauty! Will try it out tonight. I’ve previously used a Snippet to hide the Page Icon so will this still work, or do I need to delete that Snippet?

Thanks again, acub. I have been looking at some pretty neat plugins that claim to be able to upload, move and/or back up WP dev sites. Probably still fraught with danger in my hands – but at least I can keep a manual backup on my HD in case of disaster.

@kevinbloomin – I was about to install the Google Maps widget. Did you manage to find a workaround?