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Posted on 02-09-11 04:45:16 PM Link | Quote
I was wondering if anyone knows any good banner or layout creation software that is free.
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All you need is any image creation software. Paint comes built-in with Windows, but will only give you the most basic tools. A better bet is to get a more robust image editor like Paint.net, GIMP, or one of the other free ones. There are some good not-free ones as well, such as Fireworks and Photoshop.

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Posted on 02-09-11 05:25:21 PM Link | Quote
I think hey may be talking about the html/CSS, rather then the actually image part of the layout. :p

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Posted on 02-09-11 05:38:52 PM Link | Quote
Both actually and thanks for the info so far.
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Posted on 02-09-11 06:10:06 PM Link | Quote
I think most people just make the code for their layouts in something like Notepad (you can save an HTML file and then just test it in the web-browser before you put it on the forum)... HTML isn't too difficult. (admittedly, CSS is harder, but not entirely necessary unless you want fancy stuff like this layout) Maybe try looking at other people's layout code and see how they did it. (though don't look at mine, it sucks coding-wise )

For Windows I second Peardian's recommendation of Paint.NET, it's my favorite of the modern free image editors and is pretty easy to use, whereas GIMP has kind of a higher learning curve.

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For learning the code to place the banners and layout in your head, I recommend visiting w3schools. It teaches both HTML and CSS, among other languages.

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HTML Dog is a good one. I've found it to be a bit more complete than w3schools in some areas. However, neither I believe covers CSS3, but that's not really final yet so I'd avoid it entirely.

Also don't look at my layout either. I made it when I was first learning. :p

Also, there's stuff like notepad++ or programmer's notepad that'll give you fancy code highlighting, to help visualize where stuff is a bit better. I don't know of any good, free WYSIWYG HTML editors, though.

Also, make sure to test your layout in a few browsers, and ALWAYS set background color if you set foreground or set foreground if you set background. This site has several themes which may look bad or unreadable if you change text color, but not background color, for example.

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HTML Dog looks like a nice reference site, yes, but w3schools lets you try out live demonstrations of the properties, which change in realtime as you play with the code. This gives you a good change to get to understand the code and what parts do what.

And yes, don't look at my layout either.

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It's quite hard to understand what they try to teach at w3schools though. :/
They are not very good at explaining IMO. :<

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Basically I want to create a banner that links to my website and put it in my signature.
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For that you'd use an image editing software, which several have been recommended in this thread. Beyond that, the creativity end of it is up to you.

There are probably templates out there, but it's generally difficult if you want it to clearly represent your site, and that's just not very good to do anyway.

Worse comes to worse, you could probably find someone willing or commission it.

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Part 1: Don't look at mine, I've been coding in HTML forever and so resort to blatant insanity to make something most browsers will show right. (Seriously, if you want cross-compatible code, you gotta make a mess.)

Part 2: Figure out how to code HTML. Seriously. Don't make a layout until you can make a text file, type in HTML, load it into your browser, and begin to understand the correlation between what you type and what happens.

Also, W3Schools is poorly named. It's a reference site, not very good at teaching things. People like me look at it when they forget a certain command or need a CSS thing. Not so much for newbies.

Part 3: Test, test, test it everywhere. Then ask people to look at it to make sure it isn't broken.

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