top banner help?

[ivorybreath]

I toyed with the idea of making my own custom template useing one of the helpful tutorials on this site, but honestly I only have a bare knowledge of HTML. I'm trying to set up my website before actually starting to post the pages. I've been messing around with it for a while. I really want my site to have a banner up on the top. but the only templates in the public templates available that allow for these bigger banners are Sea Banner and Top Banner V2. Sea Banner looks good, except i couldn't figure out where the coding was for the banner to put in the direct link for mine. Top Banner V2 would be perfect (i like the colors and layout of it all) except the banner is way too small!! I was wondering if anyone either had a template they know of with a bigger banner that looks like Top Banner V2, or if maybe it is possible to change the size of the banner for Top Banner V2.

[trenton_dawn]

You can change the width of Top Banner pretty easily (perhaps might mess up a little bit of the formatting but I'm not sure). Under Overall Layout, there should be a section that looks like this:

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#wrap {

   background:#fff;

   border:1px solid #000;

   margin:0 auto;

   width: 702px;

   }

Change the width attribute to something larger.
Now, if you do that, make sure you also scroll down a little and find this code:

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#main {

   background:#fff;

   color:#000;

   border:0;

   padding:5px 15px 5px 15px;

   width:670px;

   font-size:0.75em;

   }

Change the width here, too, by the same amount as you did above.

[ivorybreath]

thankz alot for the help! 8D

[Asj]

what about these things?

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<a href="{SITE_URL_FULL}"><IMG SRC="http://www.smackjeeves.com/templates/top_banner/images/titlebanner7jb.gif" width="700" border="0" title="{SITE_NAME}" alt="{SITE_NAME}" /></a>
      </div>

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   body {
   min-width:702px;
   }

[trenton_dawn]

That's a good point. The first segment of code Asj pointed out needs to be changed or else your banner will be resized down to 700. The second one doesn't actually matter, since the minimum width it specifies is always met by the larger wrap width. Honestly, I have no idea why that line is even there--you can set it as small as you want or even delete it and it has no noticeable effect.