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. 

I will be out of touch for atleast two more days. It you have a problem with a template from the template store please mail me from inside the store
Thank you, and those of you in the know, please help others on this site if you can.. would be greatly appreciated.
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