So much to learn -- how lucky we are to have you sharing all this knowledge with us.  Bookmarking for future use -- gotta work on Tish's header and create one for myself at some point.

Hope that you and yours had a joyous Easter!

Thanks so much for the tutorial - bookmarked and suggested!

Thanks for the help. Numbers seem very important now that you have explained it!

Craig, as usual, thanks for another great class.  You always make it sound so simple.  Nice shoutout and welcome to Andre.  I've already touched base with him - someone else from my neck of the woods.  Hope you had a great holiday!

Craig, As always, fantastic info for us to use!

Craig....great information!  I sent you a couple of messages which you can now ignore - I solved my own technology issue!

I am not a math fan, but this I can relate to! Great information as always. Thanks Craig.

Craig - ok, as long as this has nothing to do with Algebra!  Great information - I've also bookmarked!  Thanks.

KellyP has told me to look you up; that you're a wealth of info! Wow!! I just found your blogs, and am excited to delve deeper. Craig, thanks for sharing your expertise.

Craig, this is an excellent post... but honestly, just looking at all the diagrams and numbers... it just makes my head spin.  Also, Marti Garaughty did a post on this same subject a few months ago.  Together I am betting they contain just about anything anyone could ever want to know about spacing and headers.

I am wondering how many times I will need to read this to understand it ?  Wish I was more "techie."     "suggested"

I surrender, Craig.

I have been a hold-out on AR customization for years, since so many blogs were badly messed up with clutter and barely readable.

Your post was the final straw and I have entered the dark side.......

LOL  Well done.

Craig - First of all Congrats. I have not been here latley and have missed that you have come to AR as a new ambassador. Of coarse knowing my you probably had that happen 2 months ago and I am just noticing. We'll deserved.

As to your post, this all comes together for me now. I am not a techie but I have run across some blogs of late and the dimensions are out of whack. NOW I know why. Or at least I can come back and refer to this class to figure out.

Happy Easter, Caraig. As usual, your figures are on the money.

Thanks for another informative article Craig! I will try this numbers on my blog. Great article as always!

Thank you for the tips Craig. I will have to look into this Google Chrome.

SWEET info!! Thank you. As much as I dislike numbers and would love to runaway from them your info on actually size is highly valuable. Much appreciated.....noted and saved of headache. Thank you.

Blessing to you Craig!!

 

Julia

Thanks Craig for another informative blog post. You explain technology very well and it helps so many.

Thank you Craig, this is exactly what I was working on last week.

Happy Easter Craig to you & yours...i get the 960 but get lost on everything else...tend not to use chrome because it messes up my blog posts for whatever reason...great post but a bit over me...Congrats on the Ambassador- your are someone who always reaches out to us ARers!

Bookmarking... this is great information!!

Craig- I've bookmarked this, read the whole thing and know I will have to come back to read it again.  What you say makes sense and thank you as always for taking the time to put together a great tutorial. 

Very good explanation, Craig, and thanks for the tip on Google Chrome 'Inspect.' One more number to check out is the width of the blog body on Localism. I believe it's less than AR, and the content doesn't always adjust correctly.

Another great class, Craig. Did you give your two weeks notice yet so you can be hired by AR?

Craig, my blog header isn't long enough and I'm thinking it must not be the magic 960 :) Love your tips about 684 and 520 as well. I had another outside blog and the pictures often looked horrid on it - I have posted them at 700, so they are too large and leap off the borders. Got lots of correcting to do...bookmarked.

Sharon

Great stuff, as usual, Craig!  Thank you for taking the time to educate those of us who are graphics/math challenged!

This looks chock full of good info---have bookmarked it for later when I'm less tired and more apt to understand everything!  :)  Thanks for posting!

Thanks for the math tips.

Thank you so much for this post.  I have bookmarked it so I can come back and make some adjustments.

Good to know... I knew the 960, but not the other two.. Thanks :)

Craig, you make this all look so easy. So after reading many of your blogs, I've finally subscribed.

Craig, great tops and info, I try to learn something new about AR everyday, thanks

Good stuff, Craig!! Congrats on the feature!!

Craig, some days it is easier than others to wear my "techie hat."  Ya see, I have a pointed head, and depending on how I fixed my hair that day... the techie hat can stay on very well.  Perhaps I should change my profile picture ?

And yes... congratulations on your Gold Star and your Featured Post !

HI Craig - The information in this post is very valuable since I am not aware of a single source that ActiveRain has provided themselves.

Craig - another bookmark for me as well..... great information here and will have to digest later.... thanks again

Enjoyed reading your post and will use the information to make changes to my header--thanks.

LOL ! ... I gotta take care of that when I get a spare moment !!!

Thanks for the reminder !

Cheers Craig !

 

Craig - Oh my, you just keep doing it, bringing us excellent information!  We are so lucky to have you to send out this information - the only thing better would be to have you captured in our office as our personal "tech" person.  Thanks again and congratulations on the feature!  You know, I can't believe I missed it either, your being an Ambsassador - congratulations!

Very informative, but I think I need a week to study it!

 

Another great tutorial. Thank you. I have subscribed to your blog, and look forward to your future entries...

Craig thank you for the great post. This is incredible info for all of us to use....as always.

Thanks Craig. You hit on several points that I needed to know about.

Bookmarking now.

This is definitely a keeper for me and it bookmarked next time I go adjusting my blog .. thank you 

Hi Craig,

You give out such great information!  I'm going to be working on this so that I can get a little more "oomph" out of my page.

Thank you.

Hi Craig, thank you for taking the mystery out of these numbers... now I know the technical reason why I like to use a width of 650 for images, they fit nicely with just a little space on both sides if centered.

This really clears up a bunch of questions about the dimensions of each section on each blog.  You do a really good job with these tutorials.  Thanks for doing all you do on here.

Craig,

Really useful info to avoid future screwups with my posts!

I cannot believe how much information you have put into this post--enough for a million re-readings. I really need to update my banner. 

Craig, after reading this post the numbers add up perfectly. I will check out this Chrome feature. Thanks.

Thank you....I will pick the right time to take this in.....I may let my banner go if I don't get this.....LOL

Craig, thanks for sharing, I am a work in progress when it comes to this stuff, but will keeping reading post like yours and get better as time goes on.

OK, that would explain a lot - Thank you! I just reset my graphics program to 684, this whole time I've had it set at 640 and couldn't figure out why didn't match when dropped in HTML.

Awesome post as always!  :-)   I'll be using this as I train our employees for sure.

whoa!  i am going to have to bookmark this one for sure! I need to update my stuff

Thank you, Craig.  Your contributions continue to "Pay it Forward" in the AR community as you do in your geographical community; we all appreciate your content.

Craig thanks for the information. As I have ramped up some blogging in AR it is good to know how to ramp up the graphics.

Thanks very much...   Seems Google has one of it's compainies in everything..  

Craig, I got here late to the party, as you are already featured!  I read it and thought, "OOO!  A feature type post!"  I was right, but alas, too late. :)

Good info, I found out the 960 by trial and error a few months back...LOL

I understand all this & even you've given me a headache!  Arggg.

Indeed!  A worthy post is worthy, even if I'm not there.  :D

My head is spinning. LOL But I know how well you break things down and I will get it when it isn't late and I haven't been working massive hours for a couple weeks. So bookmarked until later! Thank you!!

Hi Craig - I'm a little late to the party. It's so funny that you posted this great info just as I was blowing up the alignment of my blog page by inserting photos that are too wide, and really wide map in my comments - oops going go fix that now. Maybe I'll leave it until morning so folks can see another example of what not to do!

You Rock! Thanks for another awesome tutorial

Craig, I read the word "math," and the rest of it was "blah, blah, blah..." ;)

Just kidding, I'll bookmark it to read tomorrow when I'm fresh, and I definitely need to change my header which doesn't align properly.

Hi Craig, I guess congrats are in order on your new ambassadorship!  This was a great post and explained a lot to me in regards to some issues I have had in writing posts, adding pics, etc....will keep all in mind going forward.  Also came across your blog when I gained access to my active rain account again back in February, after a long hiatus and knew it is one I need to frequent, but got sidetracked over the past couple of months.  Your blog just became part of my morning coffee routine or bedtime story for myself.  I will be here daily going forward.  Thanks for intro to Andre above...in your post.

Hey Craig - I could not leave my blog all misaligned - so I fixed the comment image to 502px wide. Now I can go back to sleep!

Craig, what a timely information. This is my third month here, and I'm still learning basics. Thank you so much for amazing instructions. I will be reading your other posts too. Have a great day.

Craig, great tips on headers...I remember when I was trying to do my first header...what a headache! 

You must have read my mind that I need this information to spruce up my blog!  THANK YOU!

Elizabeth, Craig's blog is VERY helpful to know how to do things.  Some of it is over my level, but he's got something for everyone in here!

Some really great advice in your blogs - when's the book coming out?? Put me down for it!

Craig, thanks for the information. Very helpful and I did bookmark it.

Did you count the outside blogs with this? I thought we needed to keep it near 600 for the outside blogs not to get all skewed?  I write for both at the same time.

Great information ~ thank you for the tutorial.  I have a lot to learn, so have bookmarked it to come back to!

Good information, Craig.  Congratulation on becoming an Ambassador.  Keep posting and we will keep reading and hopefully get better at blogging.

Wow, there is so much content and useful information. Thanks for not breaking it up into four posts. This is a bookmark I will use again and again. (and I need the help)

So much to do...so little time!

Great info - I just LOVE your tutorials, Craig!

Craig,

You should think about having a Craig's Classroom website! Lots of good tips!

THANK YOU AGAIN!

Hi Craig - I hear you on not having time to build a dedicated website - I'm slipping on getting my outside blog set up. Hmmm - maybe you need a Virtual Assistant! Me thinks it's time for a Donate Button!

Thanks for your hard work and dedication to the community. I have learned so much from you.

Hi Craig,

This is a GREAT post and I too have added to my favorites.  My blog page is very plain and I have wanted to add banners and graphics to my previous post but because I am a newbie to blogging I just have not researched how to do it.  I also have not had time to build a dedicated website so I ditto Andre's comments about the donate button.

THat is a lot of information and enough to give me a headache without coffee first.  I have bookmarked it.  Thanks.

Craig, on a side note your post being included in 4 Groups made me research that.  Now I understand it, and can join and post to groups!  Thanks for the help, even if you didn't know you were doing it!

Yes, it is!

Will do on the groups.  And I also bookmarked this post for future reference, but it took me awhile to find the bookmark icon!  As they say, "If it was a snake, it would've bit me!"

thanks so much for posting this. I'm going to give it a try again. I took the class in January, took what I thought were good notes, but couldn't get my header to work with the template in AR. Even after I resized it. thanks again.

Awesome and very helpful post!  One question:  Is it better to have two different headers for AR blog and Outside blog, or does it matter if they are the same?

Craig, This is great!  I've tried to go back though and fix pics that appear too big as my header doesn't align like Sheldon's but other than pictures how can I get my blog body back to the 684 pixel size?

Wow Craig!  Thank you.  Great tools and have been using Chrome and did not know how to analyze features I like.  Love the Inspect option.

Thank you soooo much for this Craig. I learned some of this by making ugly mistakes and I still have to check my presets...I try to move them over from Picasa at 640 but if I don't pay attention I send them over higher and then they take too long to load. Great advice and continued great service to our AR community.

Man, you always write the best posts.  I have a bunch of your stuff bookmarked for when I have time to work on my blog.  Thanks so much for sharing!

Craig, thanks for the Active Rain Blogging lesson.  It is much appreciated.

Craig, let me go grab a pot of coffee.  I will need it to sort through all this information.  Thanks!

I'm with Ron - glad I'm sipping coffee as I read this.  I'm bookmarking AND printing!  Thanks.

Thanks so much Craig.  I thought I checked that but will check again!!!

Okay, I think it's worth mentioning that the sidebar width is 220.  I remember reading that somewhere before, but I wasn't sure so I came and found this post hoping it would tell me.  Fortunately I was able to use the inspect feature of Chrome that you mentioned to confirm it.  It's important to know so you don't end up with widgets too wide for the sidebar.

Wow, thanks for not stopping over & 'correcting' my header! Whewwww.

I hate it when you reblog someone & it contorts all the past posts & just messes things up!  Good FYI & tutorial.

 

I still need to create a header (will check out that blog post soon). I also hate the the way my side picture tiles. Any lessons I should check out on that? I now understand why some of my widgets look funny. Size does matter!

Craig,

It is a very good information. i use images and was hesitating about the size, so this makes me happy. 684 is perfect ofr me.

One thing still bothers me. I think the blogs that go to Localism have more restrictions to the width.

Thank you for the tips!

Hey Craig... I wanted to make a new background/wallpaper  image for my blog.. i actually did do it on picnic, but the size needs to be tweeked some... what are the dimensions for that?