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Adding and Sizing a Main Image for Everyday Giving Pages, Peer-to-Peer, and Essential Events Pages
Adding and Sizing a Main Image for Everyday Giving Pages, Peer-to-Peer, and Essential Events Pages

Best practices for a great-looking header image for your page!

Updated over a week ago

The main image for your Fundraising Page is the centerpiece of the donor's experience with the page - it's what people tend to notice and connect with first.

As such, a really great main image can really make the page shine - but it can sometimes be a bit confusing when you upload a photo for that main image, and it doesn't look quite right.

Below, we've got some helpful tips on how to make sure that photo stands out and shines for your page's visitors!
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Recommended Resolution

Our software will take whatever picture you use as the main image and resize it to fill the space of the background of your Fundraising Page. That means when an image is too small, or does not have the right length-to-height ratio, it's going to look grainy, pixellated, or distorted.

Below we've included the best sizes and ratios to use for each page. You can use a larger size than this, but make sure it sticks to the recommended aspect ratio (the length-to-height ratio).

  • Everyday Giving Pages: Donation Form Focused Template

    • 1600x1000 pixels, a 8:5 aspect ratio

  • Everyday Giving Pages: High Impact Story Template

    • 1600x600 pixels, a 8:3 aspect ratio

  • Peer to Peer, Essential Events, and Events Lite Pages:

    • 1200x600 pixels, a 2:1 aspect ratio

Does my picture meet the criteria?

To tell how large your photo is, find the photo on your computer and right click on it. Then, select the option to view the image's "properties," which should tell you what the photo's size is. (Pro tip: the first number is the length and the second number is the height.)

Does it need to be an exact match?

No. If it's a little too small or a little off the aspect ratio, it will be hard to notice. Those recommended sizes are just that - recommended - but the further away you get from them, the more noticeable any defects will be.
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My photo is too small to meet this criteria!

If your photo is too small, there are two options: find a different photo, or make the photo a part of a larger photo. Let's say you're a pet shelter, and you have a couple of headshots of pets that you serve:

Both of these photos are too small. If you use either of them, they're going to look very grainy in the background of your page.

Instead, you could take these photos and add them to a background image that's closer to the correct size, like the example below.

Now you have what you want, but in a resolution that's still going to look good!

Why does the "preview" thumbnail image of my Fundraising Page that I can see not exactly match what I see on my Fundraising Pages when I view it "full-size" on my computer?

The background image for your Fundraising Page will auto-adjust based on the aspect ratio and size of the screen that it is being viewed on. In other words, it changes based on where you're viewing the page.

We do our best to show what the Fundraising Page may look like on many screens in the "preview" images, but it can differ from what might be seen on any given browser.

In more technical terms, the background image scales proportionally to the browser that is being utilized. The background image is centered at the top, and will either by 100% the width of your browser window OR 100% the height of your browser window - it can't be both.

For example, if the width is larger than the height, as per the recommendations above, the height of the image auto-scales proportionally to avoid any image distortion. The background image in the campaign preview thumbnail may not match the actual campaign page simply because the entire page is displayed in that thumbnail, rather than what is an accurate browser window size.

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