Starting to notice and judge good web design

I am beginning to notice what I determine to be good web design. I went to the Hermitage site and really admired the design of the home page. "Wow!", I thought. "I'll never know who did this web design, but it sure is good." Then I clicked a part of it and it led me to an impressive display for the company that designed the site. They show the homepage they created for each of their important customers.  What is really interesting is that they tell what the customer came in looking for and then what web design content was selected to play up the customers products.

I have watched some Blogger videos to see a way to change the header by selecting an image and manipulationg it in photoshop. The image is cropped, resized and has text added and layered over it. It is exported,saved, then selected in "browse" and replaced as the header in blogger. Very cool. I followed the steps and went in to HTML to see the "outer wrapper" pixel size, went in to my photos and experimented but the photo always came out too large for the blog. I can see the problem lies in finding out the exact dimensions of my original saved picture and manipulating it. More experimenting to come...

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