Banner on Pixlr

Using a free tool called Pixlr, I was able to create a banner. First, I Youtube searched a Pixlr tutorial creating banners. I found a video by a Youtube user who used a cloud and astronaut image for their banner. I used Creative Commons to find a picture of clouds and a picture of a bird. Then, while following the video, I created various layers in order to get the bird on my cloud banner. I then added text, changed the font, the color, and the size. I used layer effects to then change the shadow of the text. I am very happy I learned how to make a banner and I hope to edit/create more images on Pixlr.

Summertime

I continued to reinforce my web design skills by making another page for a song. The song, Summertime by My Chemical Romance, allowed me to make an interesting and fun page. The background photo is the album cover and the picture included is the back of the album cover. The lyrics, which are properly formatted by stanza, has a new font color for every first word of each stanza. The title is the song name and band, all one color, and italicized. One of my major struggles during this page was finding a background photo that I was satisfied with. The picture either repeated or looked very blurry and I was extremely unhappy. In addition, it didn't help that I also missed a day of class and fell behind. I am not as happy with this page as I was with Imagine, but, I am still very proud of the work I produced in the time I had.

Color Table

Using my knowledge of tables, I created a table and added color based on the picture of the cupcake in the center. I used DeGraeve.com as well as Color Hunter to choose and place the background colors in the eight surrounding cells. Finally, I added a mint green, bolded and italicized title as well as a background image for creativity!

Imagine

While creating the page for John Lennon's "Imagine," I was able to reinforce the web design skills introduced to me over the past few weeks. When I first began making my page, I had to review how to add a background picture. I continued on my webpage and had no trouble changing the font size or color while creating my page. In addition, I did not need to review italics, bolding, or underlining. I was able to properly use spacing and breaks in order to keep the lyrics in stanzas. I did have to go back and review how to add a link and how to add a picture. This was also the first time I began working on link, alink, and vlink. I had trouble with them for a short amount of time, but was eventually able to work through it. I honestly enjoyed creating this page and I am very proud of the result.