banner help

k as the tittle says i need help making a banner i wanna learn as much as i can i did a banner and my friend told me "btw do you know how to make Text? with like glowing and with fading in and out?" that sounded kool so i wanna learn how to do that any1 can help me out im a newb at photoshop lol
edited: ok i was thinking maybe my question was to varied for replies maybe u wouldnt know where to help me out since i had already started on my banner here is what i have made so far

I am not sure what you want to know, but if it is how to make text look cool,
first you could use the text warp options,

With the text selected, go to the toop right of the header and you will see a a "T" ontop of and arch, clikc that button and you will have a bunch of other options, play, play, play to find out waht does what.

Secondly, you can add layer affects, start out by using the preset layer affects, find the "Styles" pallet, ("Window", "Styles")
and with the text layer selected, start clicking styles to see what does what,
Also you can load other styles, use the little arrow in the top corner of the pallet, and choose a style library to load.

And lastly, but not leastly, ther are lots of other filters and blend modes.
but you can do your own layer styles with the little fancy "F" icon at the bottom of the layers pallet
This is like a candy store for text affects,

As always, you need to play with the different settings and soon you will learn what is useless and what is golden.

Good luck!!