Hello

We have just added a new banner to our site



Our question is the text beside the banner:

1) is this used by search engines? 

2) if it is required, then can it be made invisible so the text is still there but not visible on the forum?
   (so search engines can still read it, but its not actually visible if this makes sense?)

3) How can the banner background colour be changed to white if required? 
   (Ive tried in the admin panel but it only changes the colour of have the header background instead of completly)

4) is there a way for our banner image to auto resize? 
   (when viewed on some smaller screens it protrudes past the header background)

We are using v Phbb3

Thanks for your time

1 & 2:  Is not that your forum's title and description?  If you use a banner, you can remove them.
AP > Display > Homepage > Generalities
Display Forum Title:  No

Search engines indexes anything that guests can see on your forum.

3.  We need your forum's link.

SLGray wrote:1 & 2:  Is not that your forum's title and description?  If you use a banner, you can remove them.
AP > Display > Homepage > Generalities
Display Forum Title:  No

Search engines indexes anything that guests can see on your forum.

3.  We need your forum's link.

Yes its our Forums Title and desription exactly, thats why we didnt want to remove it... but it looks messy with the banner.

We dont want to remove it if it affects search engines indexing our forum - Link: http://www.autosleeper-ownersforum.com/

Thats why we wondered if there was a way to leave the title and description in place but either make it appear invisible by changing the background colour to white or some other way? The search engines will still read it wouldnt they if the text is still there?

Kind Thanks

How about moving the banner to the center and moving the title and description below the banner?

SLGray wrote:How about moving the banner to the center and moving the title and description below the banner?

Thats how it was intialy, We'll change it back again, but we still feel it looks messy

You still have the option to disable it.

Check your CSS for this:

Code:

.headerbar {
    background-color: #12A3EB;
    background-image: url('http://2img.net/i/fa/prosilver/bg_header.gif');
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    padding: 0px 5px;
}

The background-color only covers the bottom part.  The background-image covers a small part of the top.