Catching Elephant Theme - Hey Andy, thanks for your quick reply. It’s awesome that you provide support for your theme, so thank you. A quick update regarding the size issue: I noticed it has to do with image height, rather than width. The dashboard can only display images up to 700px in height, regardless of the original. The theme seems to display the dashboard version, rather than the original as well, stretching the picture in order to fill the gap. It’s easily visible using very long infographics like this one: http://mac.appstorm.net/general/2001-2010-a-mac-odyssey/ The only way to prevent the issue is to post as text, and then insert the picture via HMTL. Another issue I’ve been battling with: It seems that there is a major delay (up to an hour or so) between the time I post something and the time in appears on the blog. Probably a Tumblr issue, but I thought I’d let you know. One last request: Is it possible to fix the menu+300px portrait and only scroll the blogged content? I know this must be custom HTML, but I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction. Oh, and if there’s an elegant way of enabling custom scrolling, let me know. Thanks again Andy. I look forward to seeing your future creations. Your talent is amazing.

Catching Elephant is a theme for Tumblr.

Please look through all the answers here before asking a question. The same questions keep coming up.

A lot of customisation can be done with custom css. Try googling css background for example.

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Hey Andy, thanks for your quick reply. It's awesome that you provide support for your theme, so thank you.

A quick update regarding the size issue: I noticed it has to do with image height, rather than width. The dashboard can only display images up to 700px in height, regardless of the original. The theme seems to display the dashboard version, rather than the original as well, stretching the picture in order to fill the gap. It's easily visible using very long infographics like this one: http://mac.appstorm.net/general/2001-2010-a-mac-odyssey/
The only way to prevent the issue is to post as text, and then insert the picture via HMTL.

Another issue I've been battling with: It seems that there is a major delay (up to an hour or so) between the time I post something and the time in appears on the blog. Probably a Tumblr issue, but I thought I'd let you know.

One last request: Is it possible to fix the menu+300px portrait and only scroll the blogged content? I know this must be custom HTML, but I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.
Oh, and if there's an elegant way of enabling custom scrolling, let me know.

Thanks again Andy. I look forward to seeing your future creations. Your talent is amazing.

No worries. I’m happy to try and give good answers to good questions.

Yep, you can fix the side bar. Although I wouldn’t recommend it. Because it’s quite long it will go off the screen on smaller monitors. The custom css below should do it, but I haven’t cross browser tested it:

.grid_4 {position:fixed;}
.grid_7 {margin-left:300px;}

The image thing: yes, if a particular image is much taller than it is wide then Tumblr will make it smaller than 500px wide. There isn’t much you can do about it. You could pull in all high res images, but that would be horrible for page load times, just for one of two really tall images every so often.

The delay is Tumblr. I’ve noticed that too, but usually only a few minutes, not an hour.

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