Designing the Header

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I found all of these photos on Google Images. I made my header last week for my website. I did not use Pixlr because I made it ahead of time but I have decided to keep it. The header shows all of the television shows that I will be posting summaries of. The shows are in order of the days I will be releasing the recaps. Monday a will have Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy because they air on Sunday night. Tuesday will have 2 Broke Girls and American Dad because they air on Monday night. The rest of the week I will be summarizing one show a week. It was not very easy to make the header because I do not have proper photo editing software. I used Sketchbook Express to make it and the hardest part was splitting the header into seven equal parts. There was no tool in the editing application for me to measure it so it was done by eyeballing it. I had to try to find images that had the shape of a vertical rectangle so they could sort of fit into their respective box. I did the best that I could and used the “fill” tool to fill in the rest of the box with the background color. I am happy with the header because it is simple but it shows you what the blog is about. I think a good place to use photo editing software for me is in a class I am taking. I started taking Animation 2D this semester and it involves a lot of drawing. If I could use this knowledge of photo editing/creating in my animation class, I think it would be very beneficial to me. The part that came easy to me in designing the header was the actual design of it. I did not have a problem coming up with the final design that I wanted to use.

Pilot

This “Pilot” is to explain what my blog is about. I watch a lot of television. I want to work in television someday, so I consider it homework. On this blog, I will give summaries of the television shows that I watch weekly. I will recap and rate these shows on their respective days.

Setting up the blog was very easy. I have used WordPress before so I had an idea of what to do. It was difficult to come up with an idea for the blog but once the focus was chosen, I had no problem coming up with ideas for it.

I am very excited to start this project and I hope it fulfills everybody’s (and my own) expectations. The shows that I am most excited for this Fall are American Dad and Bob’s Burgers!

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(Both photos were taken from images.google.com)