DESIGN

created a looping background

made this in photoshop.

drew the dog once and copy and pasted it.

for the loop to look good I used the ruler tool and snapped the images making sure one side ends where the other side starts

 then started thinking of ideas for the banner and this is the one I liked most

uploaded it and was not satisfied with that background
tried different colours a bunch of times until I  got the result which I found appealing