resizing a logo

[alillowr]

Ive got a logo that I uploaded to my server and when I go to the website it looks to small. I am just begining with all of this and was wondering if anyone could help. Is this something that I would adjust in the stylesheet file on the server or some other file. Again I am new to all of this coding and websites thing. My site to see what I mean is decaldreams .com

[haredo]

Ive got a logo that I uploaded to my server and when I go to the website it looks to small. I am just begining with all of this and was wondering if anyone could help. Is this something that I would adjust in the stylesheet file on the server or some other file. Again I am new to all of this coding and websites thing. My site to see what I mean is decaldreams .com

The size is 224 x 201

Most Logo have a width of 100px to 120 px.

[alillowr]

Well thank you for the general information about logos, since mine isnt the case that you are describing can anyone help me into what I was previously asking. the goal is to have the logo with the text nice and clear on the top of my website. If I shrunk the image down even more to what size you are talking about then it defenitely wouldnt be clear.

[afo]

You can have a larger logo.

In includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/header.php, look for:

  define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '192px');
  define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '64px');
  define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.gif');

and change it to:

  define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '223px');
  define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '200px');
  define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.gif');

This may throw off your page width, but you can probably adjust the logo size later.

If you look at the Holzheimer site in my sig, the logo is 176x185. The logo for the Fan Odyssey site is 862x110.

[alillowr]

Thanks that helped some, but I still cannot get it right, I have been trying all kinds of different sizes and percents, cropped original image hoping that would help. No matter what I do it pretty much still looks bad on the site. here is the image file if it helps. I just dont get it.

[stevesh]

It looks to me like your logo image is 480 X 203 (or 507 X 214) - maybe use those numbers in afo's instructions?

You might also post in the Apple Zen support thread.

[alillowr]

Okay I will try and post in the Apple Zen support thread.

[silverspring]

Does the logo have to be in gif format ?

also, what is the ideal file size ?

please explain how I get the 'px'

thanks

Liz

[afo]

The logo can be in jpg format as well. I'm not sure about png.

If you use a different format, just indicate it in includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/header.php.

define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.jpg');

You can find out the size with an image editor like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

[stevesh]

Also, if you use Windows anyway, you can hover your mouse pointer over the image (or the file name of the image in Windows Explorer) and you'll see a popup with the Dimensions: of the image, in pixels (or px).

There isn't an ideal size - it depends on what you want your header to look like. The standard Zencart logo is 192 X 64.