{"id":105,"date":"2009-03-09T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nukeitmike.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/making-a-header\/%20"},"modified":"2009-03-09T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:54:19","slug":"making-a-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/making-a-header\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Header"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to encourage my wife to share the site we created for keeping up with our family, I was trying to get a good picture to use as the banner in the WordPress theme that we are using.\u00a0 I had a good picture, but since it doesn&#8217;t auto scale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I ended up using Microsoft Expression Design to create a picture for it.\u00a0 I first opened the default banner picture to figure out what size it was, and then I create a new file with the same dimensions.\u00a0 Then I created a box the full size of the document.\u00a0 I filled that box with a gradient, and then made a slightly smaller box also with a gradient, but I pushed the lighter shade more so that there is a hard edge around the smaller box.\u00a0 Then I put my picture in the right edge of the smaller box.\u00a0 The result wasn&#8217;t too bad.\u00a0 And I think I can update the picture pretty easily for seasons.<\/p>\n<p>You can see what I did here:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117\" title=\"headerbg8\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/headerbg8-1.jpg?resize=462%2C123&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"headerbg8\" width=\"462\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to encourage my wife to share the site we created for keeping up with our family, I was trying to get a good picture to use as the banner in the WordPress theme that we are using.\u00a0 I had a good picture, but since it doesn&#8217;t auto scale&#8230; I ended up using&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/making-a-header\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making a Header<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expression","category-microsoft","category-web-stuff","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcW544-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}