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How to Make My Own Banner for My Website

A banner is a graphic that is used to link to your website. Banners come in different sizes for different reasons, but they should sufficiently represent your website and be eye-catching. Whether you pay for advertising or someone has a link to your website on their own site for free, your banner is your own little advertisement. You can also use a larger banner as the header image for your website if it has the title of your website on it in a large typeface.

Things You'll Need

Computer
Internet access
Graphic editing program

Instructions

- 1
  Design your website if you haven't already. It will be much easier to create your banners if your site already his a design with a specific font, colors, a logo or other identifying designs. It will be more professional if your banners match your website, and it will be much easier to create your banners once you have a website layout.
- 2
  Open a graphic editing program and create a new file. Type in the dimensions that you wish your banner to be in the boxes for width and height by pixels. Most banners for blogs are 125-by-125 pixels so that they fit easily on sidebars. See Resource 1 to see an example of the different sizes for website banners.
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  Load your website's original header into the graphic editing program. You can also press the "Print screen" button on your keyboard to take a screen capture of your website so you can use other elements of the design. Copy and paste these designs onto the new file you created. Resize the design so that it fits on the smaller file and move things around until you are satisfied. Save the file and include the dimensions in the file name (example: banner125x125) with file extension .jpg, .png or .gif.

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