Open or create a splash page in Illustrator. For this tutorial we used a design created for Blue Moon Grocery. Use these guidelines when you create your splash page design:
Set the color mode to RGB; in the Color Picker of the Color palette, select Only Web Colors.
Set the units for General and Type to pixels. Create the splash area to be approximately 600 pixels wide by 430 pixels high to ensure it will fit well in a browser window.
Use separate layers for the center (splash area) and background (in our design the background is blue).
Remove any guides you may have used when creating the design. Create a new layer and name it “guides.” Drag guides to the four sides of the splash area and add a horizontal guide and a vertical guide to divide the splash area into four quadrants.
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