Blogs whose headers I like:
http://hoosierfamily06.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-change-your-blogger-header.html - Great family blog header. I found it when searching online how to figure out the blog header business!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/55709143/in/set-981332/ - love this one. So cool, the color, the boy's face, the symbols.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/68420481/in/set-981332/ - this one has always been one of my favorites. I guess i like color.
One of my friends just turned me on to this site: http://lenatoewsdesigns.blogspot.com/ some very cool blog headers. even some for free. must admit, they tend toward the girly side.
Well, so I learned quite a bit, and it was fun. First I will explain what I did, then I will explain what I had trouble with.
NOTE: I couldn't locate the Header image on my machine to just edit the existing?
The font I selected was Trebuchet MS because it was a websafe font and since this is not an image? (right?) but just text, I picked my favorite for this site out of the web safe fonts.
I looked at the code to determine the best that I could the color and the size of the header (couldn't locate the header to edit). I used Illustatrator to recreate the header with new font and look. However, I was not able to do the following: figure out how to add blends or shadows etc to the font or get the size of the header just right - hence you still see a border around it - I meant for the shapes to go off the border, not get cut off.
NOTE: I couldn't locate the Header image on my machine to just edit the existing?
The font I selected was Trebuchet MS because it was a websafe font and since this is not an image? (right?) but just text, I picked my favorite for this site out of the web safe fonts.
I looked at the code to determine the best that I could the color and the size of the header (couldn't locate the header to edit). I used Illustatrator to recreate the header with new font and look. However, I was not able to do the following: figure out how to add blends or shadows etc to the font or get the size of the header just right - hence you still see a border around it - I meant for the shapes to go off the border, not get cut off.
For this first excersize I used Photoshop to first crop the image and then I used the magnetic lasso tool to remove the background. I am very familiar w/ PS and so to catch up I went w/ that. I will use Firefox for the next one.
I have to admit that I quickly tried to find some sites w/ P=Jpg, Pings and Gifs. What I found was that almost all the sites that I went to were using Gifs for their logos. Must be the fastest?
Examples that I found:
Gif: http://www.ymcamidpen.org/elcamino/index.html
Jpg: http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/145/the-30-hottest-toys-for-babies-kids-and-teens/
I have to admit that I quickly tried to find some sites w/ P=Jpg, Pings and Gifs. What I found was that almost all the sites that I went to were using Gifs for their logos. Must be the fastest?
Examples that I found:
Gif: http://www.ymcamidpen.org/elcamino/index.html
Jpg: http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/145/the-30-hottest-toys-for-babies-kids-and-teens/
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