SWAG Month 1: Homework Update

bylaurenjean

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6 years ago

Thanks for all your help and advice yesterday. You guys rock!!

I tried both logos at different times of the day and wasn't sure which way to go... until...

I tried out one more Theme today - the HIERO Theme that Kyle mentioned in his training.

WordPress Free HIERO Theme

I liked it when I first saw it but typed in "Hero" into my WP Theme search bar and so couldn't find it. So I went back to Kyle's Training today and watched the first 26 minutes again.

So I'm still no further than I was yesterday... except that I have a new Theme...

And a new LOGO to match.

My New Logo

And this is how it looks with my Spanking New Theme:

Pity I didn't take a screenshot of how my site looked before the changes so you can compare.

Simple Image Sizes Plugin

I also had a add a new Plugin so that my Featured Images would fit into the Thumbnails on the Blog Roll Page.

It's a little tricky because Thumbnails on the Blog Roll are square and my featured images are long (780px x 330px) so the images and half the words were cut off in the Thumbnail.

Using the Simple Image Sizes Plugin, I reduced my Featured Image Thumbnail Size to 260 x 110 (3x smaller) and they fitted into the Thumbnail like this:

It's not ideal, but it's a whole lot better than it looked before. Trust me.

I suppose I'll have to think about a square featured image if I'm really going to fix this properly. But the thought of re-doing all my images right now is just exhausting.

Watcha think?

And more importantly, how's your homework going?

Pop a link below to your WA post if you've blogged about your SWAG homework so I can play catch up with your news. Ta!

To Your Success,