Thumbnail, Banner and Background

When setting up your Main Street Vintage seller account and store you will be asked to supply a thumbnail, banner and background graphic. Alternately, you can select an internal background from fifteen offered during your store setup, accept the internal thumbnail, and use your store name in place of a banner. The internal thumbnail image looks like this:

If you wish to use your own graphics for these three items, the following points present the necessary details:

1. A thumnail image (so called because of its small size) is used on the mall home page for your store entry. The thumbnail graphic should be a square, 96 pixels on each side. It should represent you, your business and your store. A simple design is usually best. If you provide a larger sized file and/or a file that is not a square, it will be resized and forced to a square and the results may be less than satisfactory. You should provide a image that is 96 by 96 pixels square.
   
   Here is an example used by one seller:

2. You may also want your own background graphic. Any graphic can be used, but the smaller it is in both pixel dimensions and byte size the better. The graphic is loaded once and then tiled across the background of the page. It forms an outer "frame" area for both your store and your listings. The best examples tile seemlessly in a continuous pattern.
   
   Here is the background graphic used by the same seller as the thumbnail example above:

[To learn more tiling background graphics, see this page.]

3. A store banner is not required but it makes a nice personal touch to your store page. If you do not provide one, your store name is used in its place in a larger text. A store banner can be any size or shape but a horizontal rectangle is best. A size of 620 x 120 pixels is ideal. The banner should not be wider than 700 pixels.
   
   Here is the banner used by our example seller:

If you would prefer to purchase graphics custom designed for your store, click here for one source.

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