How to make simple animated banner in GIF with GIMP

We'll make simple animated banner using images and text. And we'll add border to background. 

If you have ready images/pictures/photos you can start from step 25.
To compress GIF file start from step 28.

0. Prepare images that you want to use for making banner. Look at the image dimension. Right click on image and from drop down menu click on Properties. 

Then choose tab Details and write down dimensions. Click X to close image. 

You will need it for the size of the document in the Gimp. All pictures should be of the same dimensions.

1. Click File then New or on your keyboard (press CTRL and N at the same time). 

2. Type dimensions from previous step and click OK button.

How to cut the background from an image in Gimp

We'll cut the background from an image in Gimp and also we will make a transparent background.

1. Click File than Open or (CTRL and O).

2. Navigate to the image you want and press Open button. 

Volkswagen Golf VI of Serbian Border Police and Serbian police force 

Image by Boris Dimitrov Via Wikimedia Commons

This image is neither created nor endorsed by Boris Dimitrov in any way. Boris Dimitrov do not endorse me and/or my use of the work in any way.

2b. From top bar click File, then Save As (Shift+CTRL+S), to save your file. Type the name of the file and click the Save button.

Simple website design and code-Part 3

In previous two articles we designed home page and we sliced it and now we are going to code it.

Step 1 - Setting up files and folders

You are supposed to have folder first-website. In that folder you have another folder images, with images from previous article and first-website - Copy.xcf file. 

Rename this file to first-website.xcf. 

Open this file in GIMP, we'll need to pick up fonts, colors... In your first-website folder add two files - index.html and style.css. Open the editor of your choice, press CTRL+N twice to create new files. 

Simple website design and code-Part 2

Slicing the GIMP design (home page)





In the previous article we created home page and now we are going to slice it.

Step 1 - .xcf file

Make copy of your .xcf file.



Step 2 - Header

We will stretch it out across the whole screen. We are going to take slice of header and repeat it across the screen again and again.

a) Open the copy of your .xcf file - first-website - Copy.xcf. Remove all guides from document. Select Move Tool (M),



hover over guide (red line), click (green line) and move left to the ruler to remove vertical guides. If you have any horizontally guides, hover over them, click and move up to the ruler to remove them.

Simple website design and code-Part 1

We are going to design and code simple website. Part 1 will be GIMP design of home page, Part 2 Slicing GIMP design (home page) and Part 3 will be code.

Step 1 - What you need

• GIMP
• A code editor (Notepad++, Sublime Text 2 or 3, or any other)
• Basic understanding of how HTML works, basic syntax and tags
• Basic understanding of CSS, also you should understand how selectors work and be familiar with basic properties.
• A browser Chrome, Firefox ...

Step 2 - What we are making

We will make a very simple home page, with four basic elements: header, content, sidebar and footer.

Tip: when you make some changes to the document, press CTRL+S to save document.
Step 3 - Let's start

Open up new GIMP document (CTRL+N), for example, 1100px by 1200px.

Save file, for example, first-website.xcf.