Re-sizing the Header

Description

Re-sizing the header is a simple task, though enlarging it too much may cause the website to look less professional and therefore less appealing

Steps

1. Locate ‘theme.xml’
2. Right Click > Edit with Notepad++/Open with Notepad
3. There is an attribute within the ‘frameset’ tag named ‘desktop-only:rows’ and it has four values
   1. The first value changes the height of the banner above the header indicating whether the site is either sandpit or prelive
   2. The second value changes the height of the header, which is the one we want to use
   3. The third value represents the height of the space the navigation bar can take up, if this is changed you must change the navigation bar height in a separate css file
   4. The final value, defaulted as an asterisk, indicates the remaining content which makes up the homepage
      
      
      
      
4. As mentioned, to change the header height you will need to change the second value, in this case it has been increased to 150
   
   
   
5. Save and close the file
6. Proceed with the steps outlined in ‘Uploading your new theme to your website’
   
   
   

Though the method above is viable, it can cause the website to look worse, as a result we recommend that you change the image size and proceed from there rather than altering the header height to fit a large image