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Media Definitions and Image Sizes

As well as all of the standard site framework Media Types, the theme also uses the following.

Background

iCM Name: background
Description: background image

ComponentRequired?Image editor?Allowed Types
imageYesYes*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png

The background media type is used on the Home template to display an image behind the carousel and block panels.

Icon

iCM Name: icon
Description: Icon

ComponentRequired?Image editor?Allowed Types
imageYesYes*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png
iconNoNo*.ico

The icon media type is used to provide the section icons that appear on the home/landing tiles and next to article headings.

Image Size Constraints

A single image uploaded into iCM can potentially be output in many different places. The following size constraints are used.

For more information about how the platform resizes images, see Image Handling.

NameSizes
originalmaxWidth="20000" maxHeight="2000"
thumbnailmaxWidth="375" maxHeight="250"
background (used behind the homepage carousel)minWidth="1000" minHeight="1000" maxWidth="1600" maxHeight="1040"
carouselheight="380"
icon (appear next to page headings)maxWidth="48" maxHeight="48"
logomaxWidth="500"
social (used in the footer)width="48" height="48"
tile (used by icons on home/landing page blocks)height="66"
Last modified on 19 January 2023

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