If you’ve looked at TpT stores, you have probably seen the horizontal banners
that run just above the “featured products”.
Here’s a screen shot from my store for an example:
Some of the store banners look SO professional that you may be
wondering how you could possibly make one yourself. These directions will help you!
First, I’d strongly suggest looking at other TpT stores to see what
style of banner you like. Personally, I’m
a fan of white space, so my banner has minimal details and color. Some stores have very cute, colorful and
sometimes even glittery banners. Other sellers
are going for a more sophisticated look with businesslike banners. Your choice of banner style should be based
on your personal preferences as well as the style of your store. For example, if you sell P-K products you
could go with something cutsie, but a store with high school products would
probably need a more “grown up” style.
After you’ve figured out what style of banner you want, you’re ready to
begin making it. Open up Power Point. You’ll need to resize your slide to the
following dimensions: 9.8 in x 1.25
in. This will leave you with a very long
and narrow slide.
Go ahead and insert a background paper into your slide if you want. I
chose to add a white box with a red border so that my text would be more
visible.
When choosing the font for your text, think about what will be readable
when it is small. You don’t want
anything too fancy, but at the same time you don’t want anything boring. A lot of people use more than one font on
their banners to emphasize certain words.
For my example, I have chosen to use a single font for the main text,
and I made it the same color as the frame border.
Add clipart graphics, if you want.
Text can also be added on the end of the banner or below your main text
to feature specific products, announce a sale or tell more about your
store.
Now, save your slide as a PNG or JPEG file.
To add your saved file to your TpT store, open your TpT dashboard. Scroll down to the section that is called “Marketing
and Promotions”. Click on “Customize Your
Store”. You will be taken to a page
where you can upload the link to your banner file. You have to link the banner to one of your
products, which is easy to do on the same page.
And here’s how my completed banner looks in my store:
(I won’t actually be using this banner until back to school time in
August).
Don’t forget to credit the people who made your background, font or
graphics. You can do this in your store
profile.
The background and font for my banner are from kevinandamanda.com. The graphics are from whimsyclips.com
UPDATE- 7/2/14
Here's a banner I just created for my sale this weekend. It took less than ten minutes to make!
UPDATE- 7/2/14
Here's a banner I just created for my sale this weekend. It took less than ten minutes to make!
What a great tutorial! I had mine made for me, but this will be great if I ever want to change it up a bit! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Kelly. I'm glad I could help.
ReplyDeleteJen
Thanks for sharing this! Great info! Where do you get your graphics? Do you just use clip art or is this something you purchase?
ReplyDeleteLyndsey,
ReplyDeleteI purchase my clipart from artists on either TpT or etsy. I always give the artists credit when I use their graphics in my products or in my store. (I'm a bit of a clipart addict, I think because I purchase so much. But it's all wonderful stuff and so affordable!
Jen