Setting up a blog @edublog.org

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Setting up a blog_at_edublog.org
Part 3 Creating a custom header

• With Thomas

Part 1-2 can be found at www.school2.co.za
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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
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Choose Paste as new image And zoom to 100
Open up Microsoft Photo Editor and choose Edit
You will see you blogpost in the editor window
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Use the crop button to drag a rectangle around
the blog header
Right-click and choose Crop
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Click on File?Properties and write down the
height in pixels
The height is 151 pixels
You are now going to use pictures on your
computer, resize them and drop them on top of
this picture
Save your banner File?Save as?banner4thomas
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Open a picture in Microsoft Photo Editor
Change units to Pixels
Fill in the correct height(same as blog header)
Copy the picture
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Open up your header window
Edit?Paste
Repeat till banner is filled up
Move into position
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Add an effect to your banner picture
Shall I try watercolour
Save your banner
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Log back into your blog and go to ..
Navigate to where you saved your image
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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