banner, picture size Options

[vietwonderer]

i am a newbie to making xanga skins...

so as of right now, i am doing a default xanga. i made my own banner, however when i upload it, the picture is too small. i am wondering, how do i get the picture to be bigger? as my original? please help! this is the code (the image code is all the way in the bottom):

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><style type="text/css"><br /><-- * into the light* --><br /><-- * skinned by xanga.com/vietwonderer * --><br /><br /><-- * START OF STYLESHEET * --><br /><br />BODY {<br />  scrollbar-face-color: #000066;<br />  scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;<br />  scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;<br />  scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;<br />  scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000;<br />  scrollbar-track-color: #330066;<br />  scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFCC;<br />  background-color: #000000;<br />}<br /><br />table.left {<br />  background-color: transparent;<br />  border:0px;<br />}<br /><br />table.left th {<br />  background-color: transparent;<br />  font: 8PT arial;<br />  text-transform: UPPERCASE;<br />  color: #666666;<br />  text-align: left;<br />  font-weight: bold;<br />  padding-top: 0px;<br />  padding-bottom: 0px;<br />  border-bottom: 1px solid #666666;<br />}<br /><br />table.left TD {<br />  background-color: transparent;<br />  color: #666666;<br />  border: 0px;<br />  text-align: left;<br />}<br /><br />.blogheader {<br />  background-color: transparent;<br />  font: 8pt arial;<br />  text-transform: uppercase;<br />  color: #CC99FF;<br />  border: 0px;<br />  text-align: left;<br />  font-weight: bold;<br />  padding-left: 4px;<br />  padding-top: 0;<br />  padding-bottom: 0;<br />  border-bottom: 1px solid #666666;<br />}<br /><br />.blogbody {<br />  color: #000000;<br />  background-color: #transparent;<br />}<br /><br />input, select, menu, #htmleditor, textarea, .textfield, .button {<br />  border: none;<br />  font-family: arial;<br />  font-size: 8pt;<br />  font-color: #666666;<br />  background-color: transparent;<br />  letter-spacing: 0px;<br />  text-align: center;<br />}<br /><br />.module, .module, .blogbody, table.footer, td, p, .content, .smalltext {<br />  font: normal 11px arial;<br />  color: #666666;<br />}<br /><br />b, STRONG {<br />  COLOR: #9999FF;<br />  letter-spacing: 0px;<br />}<br /><br />A:link {<br />  font-family: arial;<br />  text-decoration: none;<br />  font-weight: normal;<br />  font-size: 8pt;<br />  color: #CC99FF;<br />  letter-spacing: 0px;<br />}<br /><br />A:visited {<br />  font-family: arial;<br />  text-decoration: none;<br />  font-weight: normal;<br />  font-size: 8pt;<br />  color: #CCFFFF;<br />  letter-spacing: 0px;<br />}<br /><br />a:active {<br />  font-family: arial;<br />  text-decoration: none;<br />  font-weight: normal;<br />  font-size: 8pt;<br />  color: #CCFFFF;<br />  letter-spacing: 0px;<br />}<br /><br />A:hover {<br />  font-family: arial;<br />  text-decoration: underline;<br />  font-weight: normal;<br />  font-size: 8pt;<br />  color: #00FF99;<br />  letter-spacing: 1px;<br />}<br /><br />hr,  table.footer, table.search, #SearchBar1_pnlYouAreHere {<br />  display: none;<br />}<br /><br />i, {<br />/* edits italic text in your entry */<br />  font: italic 7pt verdana;<br />  font-weight: normal;<br />  color: #6600FF;<br />}<br /><br />u, {<br />/* edits underlined text in your entry */<br />  font: 7pt verdana;<br />  font-weight: normal;<br />  color: #3399FF;<br />  border-bottom: 1px solid #C8C59E;<br />}<br /><br /><-- * END OF STYLESHEET * --><br /></style><br /><br /><div style="width: 783px; border-top: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-bottom: 10px solid #26251F; background-color: #000000; padding-top: 1px;"><IMG SRC="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/vietwanderer/ban.bmp" border=0><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com --><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

[vietwonderer]

Don't save it as a .bmp!
Try saving it as a .jpeg or .gif before saving as a .bmp.... Also, your image link doesn't work. Oh, and try uploading it here.
ImageShack

how do you save it as a .jpeg or .gif

i created the pic using ms paint. i am cheap

umm.. try looking through the big book of rescources under 'Image host' and see what you can find.
BBoR: http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14636

yes.

[Pulchritude]

how do you save it as a .jpeg or .gif

i created the pic using ms paint. i am cheap 
yes.

when you save it and you type in your file name below that you can change the formatt you want to save the image as