:: Creating A Simple Banner Using Photoshop ::

Assalamualaikum and Haiii

How to create a simple banner using Adobe Photoshop.

First of all determine the size of the banner. As for this tutorial, i'm using a W: 800 pixel, H: 250 pixel with 300 resolution.

• File > New > Custom > Set Title > set Width and Height > Ok

 

create a new custom base

• Designing your banner, this is the most interesting part. You'll spend hours doing this. ;)
• Background colour


• Select color from color pellets > gradients tool / paint bucket
• You also can add pattern to your background by using Pattern

 

• Adding Images

•  Select images from file (internet or personal)
• Open / Drag pictures to Photoshop > Drag / Copy paste to the canvas
• Fill it with Filters for more options

• Adding Text
• From T tools, we can add text

 

adding text

• Then, make up your banner to attract others. 
• Finally, save your file.
• .pdf file - for future editing
• .GIF - for web
• .jpeg - most commonly use (quit big for web)

 

save for web

Here's the final products,

In addition, you can add watermark to your picture for copyrights

 

with copyrights

Note: 

Butting the banner on blog

• Layout page > upload image (the banner that has been created)

Now, let's start creating you own banner.

Any enquiries please email to seul.elle@gmail.com

xoxo

:: sound editing ::

Task : Tongue twister by Teacher Farhana 

Title : I thought  ... 

1. live voice record
2. effect -> amplify 
3. effect -> reversed
4. effect -> wah wah
5. voice overlay with background music by Justin Bieber 

Sound editor - audacity for mac
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac

Sound sharing - SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/https://soundcloud.com/

About Audacity

• simple and user friendly sound editor/ recorder for both MAC and Windows user
• support live recording
• clear noise 

simple workspace

effects

About SoundCloud

• social sound sharing 
• easily accessible via smartphone, blog or other applications

Steps:

• Register and log in SoundCloud
• upload file by recording or choose by selection
• customize player
• sharing html -> for blogger -> copy widgets link and paste html
• sharing flash -> for blogger -> copy widgets link -> add to layout

Add caption

xoxo

Piaget's Four Stages by Teacher Farhana

Assignment 5 : 
Piaget's Four Stages using screencast-o-matic.com .

Duration : 4 mins 45 seconds
Software : Powerpoint for Mac and screencast - o - matic. com
Number of slides  : 8 slides

 

 

Piaget's Four Stages using screencast-o-matic.com

xoxo

Yola vs Wix

wix.com

http://www.wix.com

yola

https://www.yola.com 

General Review

	Wix.com	Yola
Year	2006	2007
Storage	500	1 GB
Bandwidth	500	Unlimited
FTP Upload	No	No
Page Builder	Yes	Yes
Ad Free	No	Yes
Blogging	Yes	Yes
Domain Registration	Yes	Yes
Achaive site	Yes	No
Custom HTML	No	Yes
Custom CSS	No	No
Custom Javascript	No	Yes
History	•    founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan •    headquartered in Tel Aviv, with offices in San Francisco, New York City and Dnepropetrovsk,  •    Wix is backed by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners,Bessemer Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital.[4][5] •    open-beta in 2008.[3]	•    Founded in March 2007 Vinny Lingham •    Yola comes from the Hindi word jhola,[2] which has several meanings, one of which is "hatch" (used from a marketing perspective to signify that “Yola is where you hatch your big ideas”).[3]
Services	•  website design,  •  mobile site design •  customized •  Facebook / fan pages	·      website design,  ·      mobile site design ·      customized ·      Facebook / fan pages
Packages	•  Free •  Premium	·      Yola Free, ·      Yola Bronze, ·      Yola Silver, and ·      Yola Premiere
Design	Simple	Simple
Widget	Yes Flexible editing (free)	Yes Fix (free)
Flash Base	Yes	Yes
Photo Editor	Yes (aviary)	Yes (aviary)
Pages	More than 10 pages (with or without subdomain)	Maximum 3 (free)
SEO	Yes	Yes
Templates	Yes easy to use but too limited.	Yes Easy to use and more interactive.

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Additional Review

• Workspace layout

wix.com

Wix - better view, clean, more flexible and easy to understand

yola

Yola - simple view, less flexible, quit difficult to understand compared to wix

• SEO (search engine optimization)

wix.com

been highlights a few time

yola

small button and need to upgrade for full SEO

• url

Wix.com - http://seulelle.wix.com/farhanaphotography
Yola -  http://farhanaphotography.yolasite.com




In conclusion, Wix.com is simplify to those who have limited time, unfamiliar with web designing and in need of website according to their desire. There is no basic requirement for coding needed as WIx.com offers a flexible and reliable tools to design for free compared to Yola which is very limited. I personally propose Wix.com rather than Yola for beginners who is seeking for website builder to built their website.

myWix account

http://seulelle.wix.com/farhanaphotography

myYola account

http://farhanaphotography.yolasite.com

References
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Yola (webhost)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yola_(webhost)

Comparison of free web hosting services

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_services