Creating Thumbnails for Templates, Menus, and Headers

Thumbnails are reduced-size preview images of templates. The recommended format of these images is gif or jpg.

Creating Thumbnails for Templates

You should create a thumbnail for every color theme. The width of a thumbnail should be 780px. The name of a thumbnail file should be themename.jpg(gif), where themename is a name of the theme directory. Place the created thumbnail file into the root directory of the template.

Other preview images will be converted automatically. But to increase their quality, you can make it yourself. These images should be placed into the root directory of the template.

The names of these images and their maximal sizes are the following:

• themename_thumb.jpg(gif) (118x89)
• themename_icon.jpg(gif) (70x53)
• themename_selected.jpg(gif) (252x189)

Creating Thumbnails for Menus

If the template is intended for general use, it makes sense to provide the preview images that will best represent available menu styles.

General rules for making thumbnails for menus:

• The number of thumbnail files depends on the number of color themes and buttons forms. Preview file should be created for each pair of color theme and button type.
• The maximum height of a thumbnail is 26px, and the maximum width is 69px.
• Recommended file format is jpg or gif.
• The name of a thumbnail file should be menuN.jpg(gif), where N is the button index number. The thumbnail files should be placed in the /menus subdirectory of each color theme.
• If the design (background and foreground colors) of buttons in different color themes is identical, you can create thumbnails only for one color theme and then copy them into the other themes.

Note: Creating thumbnails for menus is optional in Sitebuilder for Windows.

Creating Thumbnails for Headers

If the template is intended for general use, it makes sense to provide the preview images that will best represent available headers.

General rules for making thumbnails for headers:

• The number of thumbnail files depends on the number of color themes and header forms. A preview file should be created for each pair of color theme and header type.
• The maximum height of a thumbnail is 56px, and the maximum width is 230px.
• Recommended file format is jpg or gif.
• The name of a thumbnail file should be headerN.jpg(gif), where N is the button index number. The file headerN.jpg(gif) should be placed in the /headers subdirectory.
• Perform these operations for every color theme.
• If the design of headers in different color themes is identical, you can create thumbnails only for one color theme and then copy them into the other themes.

Note: Creating thumbnails for menus is optional in Sitebuilder for Windows.