CREATING AND INSTALLING A SIMPLE BLOG HEADER

If you want a simple blog header, COFFEESHOP (HERE) has a great tutorial that shows you what size to crop your photo and how to add text to it before uploading it. I actually used this tutorial for my BLOG (TheAndressFamily). To do this:


- Crop your picture between 660 – 1000 pixels wide and 150-400 pixels high. How big you go is more a matter of taste, and if you make it too big Blogger will shrink it to size. You can crop at 72ppi since it will be used for web, not print. The higher ppi, the longer it will take for your page to load. Sometimes it is best to create it bigger, so you only have to size it down if it's too big for you taste. If you make it too small, and want it bigger, you have to start all over.


- Now you can add your text. Remember that if you want to use a particular color from your picture as the text color, just use the eyedropper to select the color. And MeShell’s pattern fill challenge is great for creating letters for this.


- When you’re done, Flatten and Save your image as a jpg.


- Go to your blog and go to your Dashboard and hit Layouts, then Page Elements. Or Go to Customize, then layouts then Page Elements. Click Edit on your Header, and load your new one, and select "Instead of Title and Description"


- Save and preview. If you want it to be smaller, go back to the editing program and resize and save again.


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