Extreme Template

Part 3: The Body

Covers how to design the body and structure of the template.

1. I hope you know what to do by now, if you don't, well, your not paying attention! You should make the borders for the content to give it, its limits. I won't be explaining how to do it as you should already know, if you don't know, look back at section I or II!

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2. Next we are going to work on the News Bar, so make a new layer and starting from the right side of your content space leave about 400 px of space and then using your rectangular marquee tool (m) make a selection of a rectangle, that will be the background for your 'Latest News' Header.

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3. Now that you have an idea of what we are trying to make, we will make the rest of the 'Latest News' bar backgrounds.

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4. And now just add some text and you're done! I added those extra separators which can easily be done with the single row marquee tool (m) and then just fill it with #a5a5a5!

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5. Now that we have our News Bar, let's finish up the content. So make a new layer, we will be making some more separators. So get your single row marquee tool (m) and make a selection, then deselect the extra selection, so its about 380-400 px long, and align it.

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6. Next, using the same technique for the previous separator made, make another one, with the same vertical alignment, but at the bottom of the content box.

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