http://cooltext.com/

• Select: Buttons
  
• Type own text in box Logo Text
  
• Click in Font box to choose a font
  
• Choose Text Color, Text shadow, Shape options, Effect
  
• Choose Button color
  
• Auto Width and Auto Height, Mouse over: none
  
• Click Render Button
  
• Download the image or click Edit if you want to change

Here you will find an overview of sites that offer free clipart: http://www.webplaces.com/html/lines.htm

The lines above and below have been taken from: http://www.allfreebackgrounds.com/bars.html

• Choose a line
  
• Right mouse click on a line, save as picture (it will become a gif).
  
• Upload in the Media Library and insert as a picture in an editor section.
  

For the 2 lines here I have adjusted the width of the picture to 600 pixels so that it fills the page (page is 600 pixels).

 Website with anitmated flags of countries: http://www.fg-a.com/flags.htm

Free backgrounds that can be used as a background for your eJournal
Advice: take a light colour as a paper background, otherwise the menu and text will not be visible very well. A margin background can be darker.

You don't need to register or download or order all the resources.

• Choose a background texture and download the background with right mouse click, save as a picture.
  
• Upload in the Media library.
  
• You change the background in eJournal settings, Further settings: set eJournal style settings. Choose: Repeat: Tiles (both directions).
  
• You can choose it as an own paper background and/or an own margin background

http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
Free educational clip art - Very large choice. There is clipart with (English) texts and without text.

http://www.animaatjes.nl/plaatjes/p/bekijk.php?galerij=pijlen (in Dutch)

http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/bkg.html

http://www.wilsoninfo.com/anibuttons.htm

http://www.fg-a.com/anibuttons.htm

http://www.tongif.com/

Menu (at top): Texte en Gif

Follow the three steps (étapes): first you type your text, then you choose the font, then you choose a colour.

Do not use the html code but right click on the text and save as picture (it will become a gif).

Upload the gif image in the Media library and insert it in an editor section (for the image above 400 pixels have been chosen as Width).

Other sites for animated headers:

http://www.sparklee.com/

http://familylobby.com/create-glitter-text-graphics.asp#glittertext

Click on the arrow to see an example.

Ilpo can tell more about it.