Banner is one of the important parts when constructing a website. The meaning of the banner and how it 
	relates to the reading is very important, especially the topic of the theme. In Photoshop and ImageReady, these 
	software allow end users to create the theme using the line, typeface, colour and shape etc. It is the easiest way to 
	show how the theme was created and understand what the message is trying to convey to the reader. 
	

		The theme engagement ceremony in virtual was chosen for this analysis as this is a very interesting 
	topic for the web banner. Engagement is a very formal ceremony in our life. When people think about an engagement 
	ceremony in virtual, its impossibility in reality becomes the selling point and hence attracts the reader・s attention to 
	visit relative websites because readers want to know what it is going on and satisfy their curiosity. Living in the new 
	era with high transparency of information, people are interested in exploring in things not always happened or things 
	have never happened. They will invest their time to go through the website to find out more.
	

    
		The theme relates to the reading 4. In the reading 4 (Turkle, 1996), it describes a 23 years old physics 
	graduate student called Stewart. He doesn・t have many friends. His only friend is his roommate so he is so lonely 
	and bored in his physical reality. Stewart nearly spends most of the time into the MUD because he thought he could 
	create a better version of himself. He created a character called Achilles to represent him and a living environment he 
	always wantsto have in his reality. When he played with this, he met a woman called Winterlight. This character was 
	played by one of the three female players on that MUD. After a dinner date they had a formal engagement ceremony 
	on the MUD. The banner relates to the theme because Stewart created a character on the MUD to engage with 
	another character. In this banner, the pig represented the character to be engaged with another character. Also the 
	computer represented Winterlight. It doesn・t matter to show how the character looks like. The banner is showing 
	the same way as Stewart did as well. Both of those cases were going to display something happened in virtual.  
	

       		The process of the theme was created by PhotoShop, ImageReady and Illustrator. It had four objects to 
	complete this theme. Those objects are: 

the character of the pig;
the character of the computer;
the shape of hearts; and 
the text for the topic.

	

		Basically, the pig was drawn in PhotoShop and it had 3 layers. The colour of the pig used the gradient to 
	create the effect that the character looks more active and interesting. The computer was drawn in PhotoShop as well. 
	It only took two layers to and it was drawn by few shapes and lines. The shape of the heart was created by the 
	Illustrator. The colour of it was picked from the ：Drop shadow； tools in PhotoShop. However the theme displays lots 
	of heart and just only three of those were using the ：Draw Shadow； tool. The purpose was to make these three hearts 
	outstand the others. Those drawing tasks used ：Pen Tool； to create. Finally the last object was the text, it only used 
	one layer and was created in PhotoShop. Due to the topic  was to create a cyber or virtual atmosphere, the typeface 
	was downloaded from the web. The typeface is called ：LotsOfDotz； (Jakob, 1998). It is purposely chosen to give 
	people the same feeling as the topic. 

	

    
		Make a web banner in ImageReady, one should put all the objects in PhotoShop first from the drawing 
	software. Therefore after those four objects have been created then put those objects into PhotoShop even one 
	of the objects was made in Illustrator. In the PhotoShop, the layout must be created first before making the animation 
	because it will be the final display on the websites. Those objects were then imported to the ImageReady and it also 
	enables some animation work to be done. For the banner in ImageReady, the pig appears slowly on the banner. After 
	that the computer, hearts and finally the text are display one by one. 
	

       		The timeframe for the whole process from creation of the banner to completion took about two weeks as there 
	were some difficulties. The first one and half weeks were mainly focus on the drawing part and played with the software 
	to understand how to make a good effect for each individual object. Most of the time was spent on drawing the two 
	characters. After the drawing, the layout and animation were done in the following days. This assignment wasn・t very 
	difficult to complete. To make a professional banner, the first thing to do is brainstorming and the most effective way to 
	tackle this take is to research from the internet because one can get the idea of what people wants (Peter, 1998). In this 
	banner, it took quite long time to play with the PhotoShop and the ImageReady and finally to get some ideas to know 
	how to make a good object.
	

    
		Skill or knowledge learned form the assignment. The process of this assignment was focus on the PhotoShop 
	and ImageReady. The skill that one learnt was to make animation for the object in ImageReady and get more experience 
	to use these two software. It is a very useful leaning experience for people who don・t know much in ImageReady or in 
	PhotoShop. 
	

       		    Evidently, banners always appear at the top of the website. That part of the websites is very easy to attract 
	people attention. This banner・s idea and design are relating to the Reading 4. Both of the characters, namely the pig and 
	the computer depict an engagement ceremony in unreality.  The pig and the computer in the theme represent the 
	characters of Achilles and Winterlight respectively from Reading 4. This banner is using the same way to display on the 
	web as the characters of Achilles and Winterlight.
	

REFERENCES

  

	Internet1
	Turkle, S.1996, Reading 4 - 'Who am we?・, Wired, p.9, [online]. Available at URL:
	http://80-www.library.cqu.edu.au.ezproxy.cqu.edu.au/CRO/protected/mmst11002/mmst11002_1544.pdf

	Internet2
	Jakob, F. 1998, Download Fonts-1001 Free Fonts, [online]. Available at URL:
	http://www.1001freefonts.com/fonts/lfonts2.htm

	Internet3
	Peter, G. 1998, Creating Your Own Banner For Advertising, [online]. Available at URL:
	http://www.icthus.net/CGI-City/articles/Creating.Your.Own.Banner.For.Advertising.shtml