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Create Your Own Banner Avatar

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Summary: A banner is used on a Web site as an advertisement, and banner avatars are used on Web sites, blogs and forums to add a personal touch. Find out how to modify the dimensions and location of a banner avatar with help from an IT engineer in this free video on banner avatars and computer skills.

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By Ditta Izabella
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Ditta Izabella has an IT engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technologies and Economics. She has a variety of computer science skills, including Java, C#, PHP, .Net,...read more

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"Hi my name is Izabella and now I'm going to show you how to create your own banner avatar. A banner is an advertisement you think of all the time. Usually these banner avatars are used on the websites on blogs on forums. To create our own banner avatar at first in the browser we enter CreateBanner.com and with this website we can create a new banner easily. At first we have to give the banner a size and if after that we have selected the click on create a new banner. After that, the second step is going to be that we have to select the banner background type. Let's choose this greenish color for the banner and the banner's border. It's 2 pixels this side of the border and the color's going to be just reddish. If you're ready we click on the banner itself and as the following step we have to type in the text that we would like to appear on the banner. Let's write here for example Hello World. After this we can also modify the X and Y coordinates of the text location on the banner. Now update preview and here is how the banner looks like you see. Then you can save this banner and if you click on save banner you will have the banner information. The codes for websites or blogs, the code for discussion forums, the code for e-mail and banner link."

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