Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-10558422-20150703180341/@comment-10558422-20150703215654

I see, so I guess the idea is to try and keep the colors minimal/simple and try to go for over 2000px width.

I experimented a little with the idea to cut the image out in the middle. It does significantly reduce the file size! Interestingly though it only decreases when I change it with a block colour, as changing it to be transparent makes the file size larger for me (maybe it's my rubbish editing software?). I suppose this style works well if you're ok with making the 'center-box' opaque.

Thanks for the suggestions and for explaining the other methods I had been reading about! I will try sprucing up my backgrounds a bit and see if they work better this way.

EDIT: I can't seem to get the 'no split' option to show up? I'm using images larger then 2000px wide. Though at the same time there also doesn't seem to be a split in the middle. My laptop does seem to format stuff weird with wikia in general, since stuff like custom cursors don't show up on it.