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

Hello! I have recently experimented using Special:ThemeDesigner for backgrounds, but since I am a complete noob trying to create a new wiki I completely suck. Despite reading the help pages and other similar topics on these forums I am still a bit lost on how they work exactly.

So from what I am reading, some sources are saying using the Theme Designer splits the image in half and fills the center with a color and others say that it is necessary to use the CSS for a full background image. Though from my experiments neither of these things seemed to be true (unless I'm doing it wrong, haha).

Basically, the main issues I am having is image formatting, size and quality. I have been using my Laptop for editing, and both Wikis I edited on look how I wanted them to on that device. However when I check the same thing on my Mac both are formatted incorrectly.

My first wiki uses a 1474 x 829px .jpg and on the Mac view doesn't show up at all (just eternal blackness). My second Wiki uses a 1555 x 788 .jpg and doesn't fill the whole page (bottom of the page is colored black [in a fixed view]). The image also formats into a position I don't want (the character on the side of the boarder gets pushed out of view to fit the page), but this is a more minor problem.

Anyone know how I can fix this? Another related issue I'm having (and is probably why neither work properly) is that I am unsure how to make good sized background images with a file size of 300KB or under. Even saving a .png into a .jpg is normally not enough and I have to do some severe re-sizing. While I am decently happy with the image I am using on my second wiki, I do wish I could have used a higher quality version which also actually fits the page properly . 