First take the slider.png and resize it in your favorite graphics editor. I use Fireworks, which is part of my Adobe CS 5.5 Web suite. I increased the width to 900px and the height to 363px. My images that I am going to use on the WP site were increased to a width of 866px and the height to 324px.

Now on to the CSS code -

In .theme-pascal.slider-wrapper change the width and height to what you increased to in your graphic editor. In my case 900px by 363px. Then in .theme-pascal .nivoSlider increase the width and height to the what you made your images sized to. Again I re-resized the images to 866px by 324px. Then in .theme-pascal .nivoSlider img increase the width and height to match your images.

For the controlNav, tweak it in your graphic editor first then in .theme-pascal .nivo-controlNav increase the width and height accordingly. Mine are width 400px and height 40px. Under the same selector, change left to whatever will work to center the bullets used in this theme. Remember that the more images you add, the more bullets will be generated so you may have to tweak the image to be wider.

If anyone reads this, I hope it helps.

Happy sliding!

I continued to pursue my goal, I learned to build computers. The first one that my husband and I built was, at the time, top of the line in technology. It was a full tower and had all the bells and whistles. I called him HAL. My husband said it stood for Home Automation Link, but I was thinking 2001 A Space Odyssey. We are now up to HAL4, who is unfortunately indisposed due to a possible hard drive failure or a SATA controller failure…haven’t figured out yet what. I am writing this on my Alienware M17X laptop! I have virtually built HAL5 but at the present time cannot afford to start building him. Ok I degress….back to what I was talking about.

While taking the Web Design courses at UoP, I fell in love. What a great way to show off my creativity! We were supposed to make a simple “family page” for our class assignment. I took it beyond the next level. I built a site for the WHOLE Foxworthy clan. Now when I was learning all of this, my instructor taught us to build a website using tables to layout the design. This was in 2004 and I didn’t realities that NO ONE used tables for designing any more. CSS was the way to go.  She taught us inline CSS but not external page CSS. One of the things that I wanted to add to my site was a way that my friends and family could see what DVDs we had and to be able to, through the website, “checkout” any that they wanted to borrow. The instructor knew ColdFusion, which is server-side code. She helped me build this into this “simple” project. It worked great for a while. Then my husband wanted me to change it over to ASP.NET (another server-side language). I hired someone who knew both languages to do this for me as I was not very proficient with server-side code.

Anyway this project started me on my journey to learn more and eventually start my own freelance web design company.

As a web designer, I could never understand the use of a blogging tool for full fledged websites. If my clients needed any updates, changes, etc I would be contacted and do these for them for a fee. Now clients want to be able to maintain their own websites once they are built. Enter WP. I guess if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em!