If your trying to put a logo on one of our templates this will work for most, you will just need to adjust the height.. don't mess with the width because it already spans the page. As you see I use the !important to overide anything in our original style sheet.. (comes in handy) One More thing for the love of  Al Gore's green earth don't try to add headers and logos through the SG network designer.. it is not made to work with templates from the template store (yet).

 

A few problems with labtabs have come to my attention (especially with my templates :0) But also with some "objects" that are added bellow the menu such as flash banners/ads. Not all the time, and I'm not sure why, but your lab tabs will show up behind your flash or OBJECT. A simple fix that I will be rolling out in my templates is this - z-index:

Just a little sneak peak of the drawing table. We're working on a slimline, minimalist template series for the template store.  Ya PSG has been a little quiet lately... get ready to hear us roar ;) 

If you've purchased the Fatbaby template than you've noticed it's like nothing Socialgo Networks have seen. It's a fully liquid layout - meaning it stretches to fill any screen, and squishes down to a tiny 720px. Now with great power must come great responsibility so there are a few things to realize and practice on your fatbaby networks. First is the cool little function that resizes your pictures for you, so everything stays kosher when stretched out to the outer limits of 1200px. 

Picture Resize

The picture resize will take any image placed in your blog, profile (avatar) or group (avatar) and resize it accordingly with the size of someone's monitor. Here are a few guidelines to go buy. 

1. You want your blog pictures  to hit the average size of most monitors so that it is not stretched to a blurry mess. This would mean if you post a picture that's tiny 20px x 20px it's going to strech to 700px on a 1200px wide monitor. 

The remedy:  Hit the average sweet spot. The sweet spot falls between 500px and 600px. If you don't know all this mubo jumbo px stuff, than the rule of thumb is that the picture should be big enough to fill two thumbs on your screen. For tiny pictures. Just drop them on a white, or cool looking back ground that is larg enough to fit the blog. 

Universal Blog rules

Don't think because you have a Fatbaby your load is greater than others. Just look around at a handful of blogs. People that care about their blogs care about it's appearance. So, it is a common practice to size your images to fit the layout of your blog... in short, everyone should be doing this. 

User Driven Blogs

If your blog is open to the public you won't have so much control. But here is the cool thing about the public.. they almost always post pictures too big for the blog. I know this from having a user driven blog. They grab them off the net, or from their iphoto and the picture is usually sized to fit a avrage page (because it's off the net) or it's freak'n huge because the uploaded it from their camera. BUT, if you do have a problem, we will be posting how to remove this feature in your fatbaby group. 

 

If you have bought a PSG Template from the SocialGo Template Store, please join the group that corresponds with your template. Right now there are some code snips for adding a logo to your PSG Template, and also ways to edit your template header by adding your own images. We will be adding new tutorials and code snips as time goes on and will alert the group members of the latest customizations. 

Coming soon FATBABY! That's right a truly liquid Socialgo Template, and it's easy to customize, so that you can work your existing graphics into a liquid layout. In the first release there will be numerous color schemes to pick from. I'll continue adding designs and color schemes as time goes on. 

FatBABY Squished to 700px wide.



FatBABY stretched to 1290px wide. 
 
 

And That's not ALL 

As with all PSG templates you will be assigned a special group where you will find plenty of ActionCODE add-ons like this FATbaby picture controller which allows you to upload any size picture (at a reasonable size) and it will automatically resize your picture depending on how big your FATbaby is stretched or squished, AND it puts a nifty little frame around all your pictures too. 

PICTURE CONTROLLER  700px

 

PICTURE CONTROLER 1290px

 

Well the beans have been spilt :) over at widget laboratory  on Pro Socialgo's new templates.. So why not spill the rice too? We've been working hard to create some attractive and functional templates that will break the mold of the Socialgo-squarpants look. Above you see one from the Lost-n-Found series which will cover many interests and topics. I hope to do a podcast on creating the wood shelf, but how many times have I said that. 

That's about it for now, there are many MANY more designs, but I have to keep something secret. Besides a few "just for fun" templates, I'm trying to hit on many different styles and topics so as to cover the bulk of SG user's needs. If there is a style or topic you think would reach a wide Socialgo audience please drop me a line and let me know. I would love to hear the thoughts of those out on the battle field and what kind of designs your looking for.