How Do You Create Website Layouts With GIMP?
Regardless of whether you are creating a new website for yourself as a personal site or for your business, make sure the site looks as professional as possible. While many people will employee the services of a professional website designer or graphics artist to do this for them, if money is an issue you may want to do it yourself. This may seem like a difficult and expensive project, requiring the you use a pricey graphics program like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, but you can quickly create the graphics you need for a website layout using the tools provided in the freeware program GIMP. Sketch out your ideas for your website on paper using colored markers. Decide exactly what you want to include on the page, such a photos, graphics, clipart and text. Draw in what you want you banner to look like and where your navigation buttons will be located. Load any graphics or photos onto your computer and save them all to the same folder. Open GIMP. Select “File” from the menu and click “New.”
