Website: Create headers - the best tips and tricks
Creating a creative website header can be helpful to look serious and to be recognized. Although you have to get creative yourself, we will help you in this practical tip with considerations on formatting, tips on construction kits for headers and many links to practical tips that will help you with image processing.
Header formatting tips
Before you create a header, consider the following for size and formatting:
- A website header should show the page title, band or company name or logo.
- Typical resolutions of today's screens are 1024 pixels wide. Your header should be at most as wide. 24 pixels for the scroll bar and 100 to 150 pixels for the bookmark bar are usually subtracted from this.
- If you program your website in HTML, give your header its own frame so that it is not constantly reloaded. Self-HTML gives you lots of tips on HTML design and programming.
- Think carefully about whether your header should have a large number of colors when uncompressed, or whether you prefer to design spatially so that your page loads quickly even with slow internet connections. BMP is unsuitable, JPG is very flexible in terms of compression, PNG and GIF support transparency and can be saved with fewer colors to be smaller in file size.
Create headers quickly
- On Free-Picture.de.tl you will find a collection of ready-made headers, which you say "completely free of charge and without any consideration".
- Alternatively, you will also find what you are looking for on eKiwi.de.
- These banners are backgrounds. With Paint.NET, for example, you can insert 3D text with gloss.
Tips for creating a header
Paint.NET offers many other useful functions to easily create beautiful headers. The following practical tips will help you:
- There are nice effects for the background if you run images into one another or create flames.
- With the help of our practical tips, you can, for example, create a lettering with a color gradient.
- You can rotate the text if you wish.
- You can also create frames around text and smooth the edges.
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