Who here wants to make their own layout but doesn't have the right gear for it?  Well, with our help you can! Follow the steps below and soon your page will be as good as new. Please remember to give us credit!

1. Making a Banner - Have a look through your computer's programs and you'll find Paint. Here you can draw, colour in and cut out images. If you have anything similar you can use that, Photoshop or anything like that is highly suggested. We know GIMP and some versions of Photoshop can be downloaded but the version of Photoshop filly1 uses was bought with real money. So now you are on your way. If you are using Paint and you need to cut out anything we suggest enlarge it, it really helps. When you are done, save it. Make sure it has .jpg at the end of the name you save it to.

2. Uploading - Now your banner is finished you can upload it to the web. To do this you can use Photobucket, Imageshack etc.

3. Layout Part - You are now up to the layout part. Copy the code we have for you below into your html mode. When you go back to your page you'll find two boxes both white. Go back to html mode and you'll notice in the code has at the bottom <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> the ffffff is the colour code for "white". Click here to find the colour you want and copy the letters/numbers. Get rid of ffffff and put in the colour code you have. Remember to keep them all together, no spaces. When you return to your page you'll find the bottom white box originally there is now the colour you chose.

4. Finishing Off - Now is time to add your banner. You can copy the html and paste the code in html mode but usually this will lead back to where you uploaded it with a link. It doesn't really matter but some players find it annoying if they accidently click it. If you don't want the link copying won't work assome browsers won't let you past it for some reason. A trick filly1 learnt is you copy the img code from the image hoster you used, send a pm to yourself with the img code in it (For those who don't know the img code will turn into the image. This code can be used in pms and forums). You need to be using Internet Explorer for this part. You then copy the image to your page and save. Make sure it's all there and go back to your edit page. You can now drag it to the top box. Save it now to make sure Howrse doesn't go wacko after you write out your whole page saying the html is incorect, trust us, you don't want that to happen. Well anyway, ta-da! Your first layout. Now you can get writing in the box below.

5. Extras - You're getting bored with your layout, you want something different. How about try some scroll boxes? Maybe use an image as a background? Or even change to font?