Taptastic Banner Problems - Need Some Help

[aelmaazad]

Hey there!
I've been here for a while, but I've noticed something strange about the Taptastic Banner

So since the banner size is 1280x460
Whenever I draw my banner and upload it, there's always a portion of it missing!

It's annoying, I can't even fix it!

Like when I upload it on the "Edit Comic" it looks complete. But once I go to my actual page with my comic
It shows up incompletely, and it bothers me, because when I try to resize it, the same thing happens! XD

Is it a problem with my computer screen? I seem to see other people's banners just fine.
You can go check out for yourself, just go to my comic "Sons of Ra" and you'll see that the banner is all messed up.
So if someone can please help, that would be very appreciated!

[AnnaLandin]

First - how much of your banner is visible will vary depending on what device you're using to view the comic; it will look different on a phone than it does on a desktop computer, for example. This might be what's happening here.

Second - this is what I see when I go to your comic.

What part of it is messed up?

[shazzbaa]

Seconding Anna -- what you're probably seeing is that the website shifts the image around and crops it so that it fits the page no matter what size your browser or screen is, so you'll very rarely see the entire image. There's nothing wrong with your screen -- it's supposed to do that!

For example, this is what I see when I look at my own page, with my browser taking up the entire screen:

(notice the logo is riiiiiight up against the bottom edge on this one)

here's what it does if the browser isn't quite as wide:

(there's more room on the bottom of the page, but now the left and right edges are cut off)

but this is what my full-size banner actually looks like:

I made sure there was extra room on the edges with nothing important, so that when it gets cropped by the website, it doesn't look like anything was cut off!

[ConradComics]

Agree completely with the replies. It's all on the browser size.

My Banner is exactly 1280 x 460. As long as I tug Chrome and Edge far enough in length and in width, I see everything. Granted, someone who is looking at a browser that is too 'squished' won't see it all, but there's nothing that can be done about it.

Edit: For what it's worth, I have a similar issue when it comes to browser buttons on other websites. If I've pulled my browser over to the side to get it out of the way, some buttons on websites won't show back up until I pull the browser out far enough.

[Greg_Dickson]

I just realized that I have the same issue with my banner. I spent months putting 32 of my characters on this thing, and I never realized until the TC posted this, that the image gets cropped on the top and bottom a bit. It doesn't ruin my banner, but a bit of each character is missing, which totals into many, many hours of unnecessary work.

[PotooGryphon]

Banner images scale with the size of the internet browser window. It's been discussed a few times on the forums already and here are some links to forum threads with some template to design for this.

Thumbnails, cover banners, avatars

App screenshot requested to improve banners!

[aelmaazad]

Oh my, so sorry for not replying earlier!
That actually clears everything up, thank you. At first I was having problems, because I drew
the entire banner and it took me a while to make, and once I posted it, only a little bit of it actually showed up and it annoyed me. It's a lot better now that I know that it looks normal on other peoples' screens. So thanks again for answering my question

[aelmaazad]

Yeah the same thing happened to me. When I wrote the title, like the top half was missing and it looked strange. But apparently it just does that, and on some other peoples screens it looks perfectly fine. So in a way, we didn't lose our hard work! Yay!

[aelmaazad]

Ahh sorry for the late reply, yes thank you for clearing that up! It's all good now