New starter – hel much appreciated for charity blog site

  • Hello helpful people

    OK i’m a totally new started and i’m trying to keep it basic. I’m not used to using HTML etc and i’md trying to do everything from dashboard. I’m using Arras template and the site looks like this: https://www.ontheup.org.uk

    My questions are:
    – How can i upload a banner with our Logo in it? (I guess this would be a custom banner)
    – I want to have a tab on my menu for ‘Home’ which takes people back to the first page you see when you go to ‘www.ontheup.org.uk’ but can’t figure out how to add this a page??
    – Image sizes – my images are v distorted. Is their an ideal upload size & shape?
    – How do i link with facebook & twitter?

    ANY help much appreciated in advance.

    Best wishes,
    Nikki

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  • Good Questions,

    Here’s some possible solutions:

    1. How can I upload a banner with a logo in it:
    currently your logo is in: https://www.ontheup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/idea1small1.jpg

    The easiest way to get that image into your site without using any HTML would be uploading it to your .com using an FTP client.

    If you create a jpeg image with the same name as the one that is currently in your header (idea1small.jpg) and replace it on your site using FTP it’ll change on the frontend.

    If your a mac user and you need an FTP tutorial I have one at:
    3200creative.com Fetch FTP tutorial

    2. I want to have a tab on my menu for ‘Home’
    If you are using wordpress 3.0 the menu system allows a custom menu item. Basically you make a menu item named ‘home’ and direct it to the main page of your website.
    If you need a tutorial on how to set this up I have one on my site here:
    tutorial for wordpress 3.0 menu

    3. The images are vertically distorted what is the ideal size.
    I took a look at your CSS and the correct size for your images are 250px x 640px.

    4. how do i add a link to facebook & twitter.
    standard linking is using <a href="facebook.com/3200creative">Click here to become a fan of 3200creative on facebook</a>

    that will look like this:

    Click here to become a fan of 3200creative on facebook

    Same rule applies to twitter. Hopefully some of this helps you out a little bit:)

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    Thread Starter nikkiw

    (@nikkiw)

    Thanks so much – amazing help!! two more follow up questions…

    1. what package do you use to amend pictures? I triedto convert to 250 by 640 in picture manager but it auto defaults to 373 by 250?
    2. Facebook link. Do i just paste this link into the HTML of a new page. How can i make it so that my bogs automatically go onto my facebook page?

    Thanks a million – legend!

    Your welcome,

    1. I don’t get what you mean by package. If you want to resize a picture prior to uploading it to facebook you could use this
    2. Use the plugin ‘wordbooker’ for auto posts to FB. It’s a pretty nice plugin

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