Creating a banner for my website

Overview

You will generally need two things to create a banner for your website...

1. An appropriate image that would suit being a banner (99% of the time this would need to be a landscape image
2. A image editor, like photoshop or similar.
3. A template which allows the banner to be changed. Most templates available -
   (particularly the Customisable Options Templates) support this.

Common Image editors

• MS Paint - which comes installed with windows - a detailed tutorial can be found here
• Adobe Photoshop - a Professional, but expensive image editor available from  Adobe
• PIXLR - a free web-based editor find it at pixlr.com
• Photopea - a free online editor comparable to Photoshop - photopea.com

Saving your image in the correct format

Images will need to be saved as .jpg, .gif or .png to be usable within the CMS