hi there
We have a query. We would like to upload the ‘original’ social media icons rather the current ones made available by our template.
The current default ones(visible top right corner of our homepage) are not the official icons. Is there anyway we can upload the new(latest) ones and disuse the default ones?
It would be of great help because the quality of the design on our site is in the details 🙂
If you have any questions feel free to ask, hope to hear from you soon.
Mucha K
I think the top right elements are using a custom font, or png files.
You can probably look for the module for the social iccons in the theme folder, and perhaps try to edit that.
Virtually no site on the web uses the “official” graphics from the social sites as they are often not same size or “style”; most use the official logo but with custom iterations for consistency — e.g., TIME doesn’t use the official social buttons, nor does CNN, etc. Many now use the font awesome font set which has all the social icons and load faster than individual graphics. Others use sprites vs individual graphics for better pagespeed rating.
So take those issues into account if hacking the design elements 🙂
Tagdiv support back on Monday.
Hi,
For icons the theme uses sprite files, you can find theme inside the ../Newspaper/images/social/sprite folder – http://screencast.com/t/Xi4NrbPF
As you can see there are different sizes. You could either replace each icon or use custom css to replace the icons used by you on your site, the browser inspector will reveal which file is used and the background position – http://screencast.com/t/iNcWX4nZ
Thank you, Emil G.
