7 Steps to Header Heaven
April 8th 2008 19:47
What do you do when you can't afford expensive software to create a header or banner?
Step 1 ~ I whined to Jon in a pm
Step 2 ~ Inspired by his advice, I moved on to resolve the matter myself, pondering a bit, eureka, a flash of inspiration exploded in my overly caffeine saturated mind
Step 3 ~ I then moved forward with the resolution process by downloading Yahoo's free site builder software and SnagIt (30 day free trial version) of course
Step 4 ~ Using the Yahoo wizard to create a new site, I opened a new page, a generic one, changed the page background to white, and modified that pages header by adding an image, text and header background color, saved it but didn't post the site
Step 5 ~ Next, I then created copies of the header and spread them out on the same page, and modified the others file headers on it, just as you can now view them
Step 6 ~ I then used Yahoo's snazzy preview feature to pull up the result in my browser and used SnagIt to capture the individual headers as an image and convert them to a jpeg.
Step 7 ~ Within a hour I was installing them onto my Orble blogs as jpegs
Thanks for the inspiration, Jon and thank you Yahoo.
Why did I use Yahoo, I have a site hosted there of course; tlcorbin.com
Raven
Step 2 ~ Inspired by his advice, I moved on to resolve the matter myself, pondering a bit, eureka, a flash of inspiration exploded in my overly caffeine saturated mind
Step 3 ~ I then moved forward with the resolution process by downloading Yahoo's free site builder software and SnagIt (30 day free trial version) of course
Step 4 ~ Using the Yahoo wizard to create a new site, I opened a new page, a generic one, changed the page background to white, and modified that pages header by adding an image, text and header background color, saved it but didn't post the site
Step 5 ~ Next, I then created copies of the header and spread them out on the same page, and modified the others file headers on it, just as you can now view them
Step 6 ~ I then used Yahoo's snazzy preview feature to pull up the result in my browser and used SnagIt to capture the individual headers as an image and convert them to a jpeg.
Step 7 ~ Within a hour I was installing them onto my Orble blogs as jpegs
Why did I use Yahoo, I have a site hosted there of course; tlcorbin.com
Raven
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Comment by katyzzz
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Check this out...
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Comment by Tracy
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That's great, I wondered what SnagIt was like. Very innovative!
Tracy
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In the future, if you ever need to make more banners, just google "GIMP." It's the same as Photoshop and the best thing is, it's free.
Comment by tlcorbin
Hiya James, like many others on Orble, I have been wanting to make a nice looking header, nothing outrageous, just something better than what I had. But when Jon let me know the tech problems for him, I decided to find a simple solution, and think that I did.
What? Katyzzz, it is simple, very simple.
Hello Tracy, I was shocked at how easy it is to use. In fact I will probably purchase it.
Here's an offer to those who are stymied; email me at tlcorbin.raven@gmail.com with the text, with or without text background color and font, image and header background color. I'll make it up for you and email the jpeg back to you as I have time to do so.
Raven
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Comment by Damo
happy blogging.
Now you control all of this, tomorrow the world.
Comment by Kleonaptra
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So now the first thing anyone sees on my page is the Goddess gathering souls back to the egg of life. Perfect.
Comment by tlcorbin
If it works for you kleo, then all is well in the universe and I happen to like her.
Raven
Comment by jon
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I can definitely recommend GIMP to everyone as well. It's basically the free software equivalent of photoshop.
Also when you upload your title images they may be off-centered to the right. To fix this go to your blog's Theme page, then Advanced Themes, and under the Header section set Left Padding to 0. Then your title banner will be in the centre rather than off to the right
Jon.
Comment by Damo
I think Diogenes asked the same question of Alexander the Great.
Comment by Kleonaptra
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Evangelion - Neon Genises, Death and Rebirth. Anime cartoon that deal with the big questions - God, Humanity and Angels. The series is quite long and Id say you have to watch the series in entirety to undertand the movie (um...But even after the movie its hard to understand and Ive watched it to infinitum?) but I know plenty who have just seen the movie by itself.
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Diogenes was on to something Damo, and he knew it.
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Comment by Jarrah
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But...I made my header in Word and paint.....and I think you'll agree its fairly professional.
No 1 design rule - don't make work harder for yourself than it has to be. You could've made a better header in Word or paintbrush etc etc LOL
- Jarrah
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Comment by tlcorbin
From the interest generated, others may be having the same problem.
And I've seen your header and didn't care for it, but that's just a personal preference thing. Seriously, that'd be a great topic to share with others.
Raven
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Jon's suggestion is gold - use The GIMP
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