Can anyone help create a website header?

Hey strangers...not been about for a while hope you are all well...and hello to all the newbies i've missed!.

right then.....im trying to make a header for my website..and err...failing miserably....you can see my attempt at www.babysfirstcalendar.com , although im happy with the layout its mainly the colour just looks poor quality.

i have illustrator and photoshop but these are new to me and I dont really have the time at the mo to learn how to use them....

id imagine its a quick and simple process for someone who knows what they are doing, could anyone knock me one up? help a brother out?

if anyones in a good mood and fancies doing a good deed today pm me or reply on here...thanks dudes

Layout/colours look okay to me.

What format is the image... .jpg? Try with a .gif or .png instead and see if this improves things (watch out for the file-size with the .png though, although you should be okay in this case)

thanks jabba yes its a jpg at the mo...ill try and save it as a .gif and .png see if that looks better....it just looks grainy to me....not sharp enough..ill go test, thanks.

+1. It looks OK to me other than the images.

Some of them seem to be a little grey/cream coloured where they should be white (HTML #FFF).

This could be because, as Jabba says, the images are in the wrong format, or it could be that they need a little image manipulation to tidy them up.

You should be aiming for approx 72dpi for images rendered in a browser, anything higher will just be lost.

Originally Posted by Baph

You should be aiming for approx 72dpi for images rendered in a browser, anything higher will just be lost.

Windows default is 96dpi so aim for that. and being a pedant, ppi "pixels per inch" is more accurate.... dpi (dots per inch) is a printing term .

But Baph is right, make sure your images are sized correctly for both file-size and clarity purposes. If they are too big then they will be "squashed" by the brower and you are then reliant upon the viewers PC to handle the images.

If you use a gif image then try to go for "web-safe" colours. Your image editor will probably prompt you about this.

I take it you still got an original header saved as something else other than a jpeg? as just saving the jpeg as a gif etc will not make it any sharper im afraid

Also once you have created the website fully use

http://validator.w3.org/

to validate all of your code, it will tell you whats wrong and also gives you the corrections

thanks all....created a new one and saved it in a different format i think it looks much sharper now, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Also once you have created the website fully use

http://validator.w3.org/

to validate all of your code, it will tell you whats wrong and also gives you the corrections

cheers holdup will remember that for future..using mr site this time tho so think its all taken care of their end..cheers people

Thats a lot better stands out a lot more now!

Originally Posted by Holdup

Thats a lot better stands out a lot more now!

cheers mate