How to Create an Eye Catching Banner With Inkscape

Alternate Method

There is a better way of doing it, so the text remains text: by using clones.

1. 
   Start the same way, writing the desired text at the desired size and using the desired font face.

   1. This is the master text, source for cloning, you don't want it to show in the final design so it has to be placed outside of the canvas.
2. 
   Open the "Fill and Stroke" dialog and unset paint for both fill and stroke, this is a needed step in order to be able to alter the attributes for clones.
3. 
   Create a clone of the initial text (Edit > Clone > Create clone) and put it on the canvas:
4. 
   Change the stroke color and width as you like.
5. 
   Adjust the font thickness by changing its stroke width.
6. 
   Make the fill color the same as the stroke color.
7. 
   Then create another clone of the initial text and use a temporary color (it will become the white border):
8. 
   Increase its width for the large border.
9. 
   Move it under the title text and make it white.
10. 
    Get another clone of the initial text, with both fill and stroke color set as black and the same stroke width as the white border:
11. 
    Move it under the entire stack, shifted one or two pixels down and to the right, for a drop shadow:
12. 
    Add some blur, decrease the opacity.

    1. The difference between the two methods are:
       1. We can change the initial text and the clones are updated automatically:
       2. Also you can change the font face or size, it will work perfectly: