Headers for the website

As this blog evaluation is to evaluate websites whi ch will help me in my creation of my website artifact, hence I’m looking at different headers which i can use to help me in designing my website header. There are different type of really cool header which other people had did which is shown below:

1. Sean Saw

What he did was to make it like a postcard from a holiday spot with the title called In pursuit of a perfect bliss and his signature on the bottom left of the header. It even have a matching blue background, behind the card. I might not be able to use it as it is not suitable for the theme of my website as i want my website to look groovy with artistic design. But it is a good idea for me if i want to put picture of scenery on my website, i can make it into a postcard look a like.

2. Another header which i found in the hype machine website is this

It is the hype machine’s user survey which they have created and post it in the website. I find that the header is actually very messy with words in different fonts, and with one look you would not know that it s actually a user survey. the pictures is everywhere, an so is the words, it also have a green patch of the poster list on the left which my eyes is attracted to.

In the website, it also shows another header which is called ‘The Impossible’, it may looked simple with just one flying pig and a few trees; but it was that simplicity of design that made the whole thing looked very nice. I think that this design looks so much better than the previous one. Even though this design looked simple, but it is attractive. I learn from this two header that the header design should be simple with consistent fonts for the words and not have different fonts for different words as it will make your website look messy. It is also important to try to keep your header simple and not too complicated with lots of design in it to make it look clean and nice.

3. Another header which i like is the Open Culture header, i like the concept of the title in the Liverpool road sign and the other patterns at the back. The design at the back seem to say that that is what which made Liverpool as a cultural city.

I think for my header design, i will use the similar way of design whereby i will use a road sign and put my name in it, behind the road sign i will put graphics which represent me (i.e. my pic, guitar, book and lots more). The reason i am going to use this design is that i personally like it and i think it fits the theme of my website. However i will have to be carefull with what graphic i put behind the sign, because i were to put too much it will have a side effects of the header being too cluttered with pictures.

4.This is another header which i found from Simply Jen blog.

I find that this header is very simple yet feminine, with a good combination of colours of purple, green, yellow, brown and white. HOwever the green ribbons of the flowers are covering some of the word ‘Jen’ which maked it hard to see.

5. This is another blog header from Shannon & michael:

Thier two main theme colour is orange and black, which not much people dare to use but they did a very good job in matching it together. The header is simple yet to the point as you will know that it is a blog about this couple called Shannon and Michael.

6. This is a header gotten from Duke Blog:

This look like a scrapbook page whereby the person design the header like a scrapbook whereby you cut out words and pictures and paste it on a piece of paper. At the same time it maded the header looked very gothic with the picture of him on the right, and the red heart.

7. This is the website called The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard:

The header is actually a flash animation; whereby when you play it it will buffer with a pencil drawn person filling a whole. Than it will start draw the story of stuff with Anne Leonard later with Annie her person talking about the consumption and production of patterns. It looked like the Mac website whereby it is has white background, simple and informative.

8. Another interesting header is from HeavyHand Design:

I like this animated header is from a web design company which creates alot of animated cartoon like the header itself. I find the header to be very feminine with the animated women in read sitting on a matching read sofa. Even the words ‘Amuse Bouches’ is in an italic font which matches the personality of the design.

9. This last one is called BLOG, whcih was dedicated to write about Paris Hilton being jailed:

I like the header as it is simple yet straight to the point, when you move your mouse to the link (home, pledge here, faq, blog and contact) you can hear the sound effect of the jail bars being closed.

There are also alot of websites which provides example of blogs and headers design which peopl can download:

Free Webpage Headers

It not only provide blog headers design but also design for blogs.

Free Blog Headers For Theme Designers, Background Desktop Images

This is a website which offers free web graphic headers for people to download. It has alot of example of header’s background which i can use for the background of my header for the website.

Paul Stamatiou

It teaches us how to make a blog heder graphic from skratch, by using photoshop CS2. This is good as it can help people to design thier own header according to thier own preference.