How To Design Your Blog Header and Menu Bar in Photoshop: Part THREE

Welcome to part 3 of our 6 part series on Blog Design in Photoshop. Let’s chat about how to design your blog header and menu bar in Photoshop.

PREREQUISITES:

New to Photoshop? I suggest you start here –>> Photoshop Tour of the Tools Tutorial.

Before starting this tutorial, I recommended that you have completed the previous 2 parts of this tutorial series You should have the following complete:
1. How to create your blog template in Photoshop>>
2. How to design a blog background in Photoshop >>

TOOLS:

As with all other tutorials in this course, you will need access to Photoshop. Here’s a handy link where you can get Photoshop for FREE for 30 days! Grab Photoshop for FREE >>

In this tutorial, I use stock images to add character to my header design … and I recommend you do the same.  Learn how I use BigStock.com and how you can get 35 amazing stock images for FREE >>

Another tool I use to create logos and headers is Google fonts. I get all my fonts from Google Fonts for all my designs. They are the best, easy to use, work 100% of the time, and they’re FREE! Learn more about Google Fonts >>

THE TRAINING:

Your header is the most important aspect to your blog design. It’s the first thing people see when they arrive on your site … and it determines if people will stay and hang out, or click away.

The great thing about header design is there is so much you can do with it! You can either keep things very simple, clean and professional … or … you can use that space to really stand out from the crowd … to tell a story about what your blog is about.

Menu bar design is also important to your blog success. You want to make sure your menu bar stands out, and is easily identifiable as the organizational structure of your blog.

In this video tutorial I give you a few tips on some different header & menu bar designs. There are so many things that are possible with these elements … but I try to give a few suggestions just to get your creative juices flowing … so you can start to play around with different ideas.