Setting up a blog @edublog.org With Thomas Part 3: Creating a custom header Part 1-2 can be found at www.school2.co.za

Open up your blog page Open up your blog page Press: Alt  PrtSc At the same time on your keyboard. A snapshot of the screen is now on your clipboard ready to be pasted…

Open up Microsoft Photo Editor and choose Edit Choose: Paste as new image And zoom to 100% You will see you blogpost in the editor window

Use the crop button to drag a rectangle around the blog header Right-click and choose Crop

You are now going to use pictures on your computer, resize them and drop them on top of this picture Click on File  Properties and write down the height in pixels The height is 151 pixels Save your banner: File  Save as  banner4thomas

Open a picture in Microsoft Photo Editor Change units to Pixels Fill in the correct height (same as blog header) Copy the picture

Open up your header window Edit  Paste Move into position Repeat till banner is filled up

Add an effect to your banner picture Shall I try watercolour Save your banner…

Log back into your blog and go to ….. Navigate to where you saved your image

You can even hide the text Or change the colour of the text Save Save Save!!!! Let me go check out my blog!!! Click on ‘View Site”