It’s all in the title ain’t it chaps! Website header graphics are the first impression you give, of your website’s identity and therefore, your business’ identity and branding. Every single site on the web requires their own distinctive website headers to make them instantly stand out: branded in fact. That’s what the Atmospheres Collection sets out to do, using images culled from my walking,

climbing, canoeing and travel adventures. Not being a graphic designer, easily obtainable header background images have been a vital ingredient in designing the headers for several of the websites I am involved with.

With so many websites out there, all attempting to have their own uniquely eye-catching website header, you need a source of fresh images to keep ahead of the rat pack. Website designers working in tandem with graphic designers and; with the help of a variety of highly capable desktop (and web-based) graphic software, can help you to develop a distinctively branded website header graphic for any website you care to imagine. Your own imagination is quite literally the only obstacle.

Nowadays many website header designs can be obtained from on-line catalogues which specialise in website design and graphic design. Their highly qualified designers come up with consistently amazingly creative graphics for incorporation in website headers.

You can choose your own website header from an enormous variety free and paid for online sites available these days. If you are having the work done for you by a professional, it’s necessary to collaborate closely with the graphic designer exactly what kind of website header image you want for your site. Start out by selecting the design ideas from a search of high ranking websites to see the many variations of engaging website header images that are available out on the web.

Huge numbers of enterprises that provide paid for website header graphics (and I must stress these are random examples; not businesses I am associated with at present) include names like: Websiteheaders, Dreamlevels, Dezignsbyt and many more, for example. These types of enterprises are able to save you work by providing excellent website header images at reasonable prices either from your specification or from a stock of templates. There are free options also.

The graphic design companies mentioned above; all develop web design templates and graphics with professionalism as a key value; and value for money as an important selling point. These companies provide unique web design templates and unique website header graphics. Such web businesses are successful when you break through a barrierand that happens when your site stands out in the crowd.

You can opt for a unique header design or a professional web template, with the help of their graphic designers. Another of our examples also helps you hit the web running with the newest looking website templates and website header designs from their professional in-house graphic designers.

If you decide to go it alone, website header designs can be customized in a variety of graphic programs: as can web page design templates. The most effective examples of these applications are Photoshop and Aperture. If you are starting out on a limited budget, Gimp, the open source version of an image processor is worth assessing. One of these software packages is vital if you want to give your graphics that unique and recognisable look from your own PC or Mac.

Whenever you create a website, it has to stand out from the crowds of other websites in its niche. For the beginner setting out on the web, you can also design your early websites using some amazing on-line web graphic software tools and templates. You can create some superb looking websites from existing templates, with header graphics from your own, or stock, photos and other graphic elements culled from the extensive collections of clip-art that are easily found on the web. You can even spruce up your existing website, simply by redesigning a fresh website header for your website using some of these tools and uploading the result to your web server.

In order to gain the competitive edge you should do some detailed research into all the sites which offer to design the best website header graphics for your websites and compare them with the free offerings out there. The big decision is whether to invest your time and effort, or to out-task the job and pay up front. (This second option will make your workload lighter in the long run). Then it’s a simple matter of selecting the option which you think will be the best for your website’s niche and your own skill level.

Thanks for reviewing this article, I hope you found the information about website header graphics useful to be of great use.

I was having alittle play with Windows Movie Maker today, to see if it was a viable tool for producing the marketing videos I need to get involved in to promote my business more effectively.  I didn’t hold out a great deal of hope, because after all, it is a tool I was using with primary school children a short while ago, to produce their short videos for learning  projects.

I think the honest opinion is that, while it does produce useable videos quickly and simply from a mixture of starting materials, it isn’t really flexible enough to compete with the likes of Camtasia or Camstudio.

Here’s the reult from today’s little play:

As you can see the dissolves are a little grainy and basic looking and you are a bit limited when it comes to title animations. On the plus side, the transitions are very varied.

As a thankyou for looking in, you can download the Atmospheres collection.

As a free package you can’t really knock it, but I bet there are some excellent free packages out there and some very good paid packages that will do a fantastic job of video editing at excellent value for time and money.

What is your recommendation? Your favourite video editing tool?

The Northern View is all about my slightly warped view on life, business and the web.  I suppose it comes from my passion for photography and the historical fact that it was computer graphics  – old school style, on a Commodore PET – that got me into the whole IT scene.  As a lad I was hooked on Sci-fi books and I probably only had a tenuous hold on the here and now.

Computers were going to be the brave new frontier and I particularly remember the tale of a super computer based on a moon colony at the moment that those future colonists decided they wanted political control over their destiny.  As, traditionally happens, the politics descended into warfare.  During the build up to battle, the computer somehow attained sentience. The story revolved around the relationships that grew up between the newly intelligent computer and 2 young colonists who had to sit on this amazing secret as madness grew around them.  Anybody out there recognise the storyline?  I can’t for the life of me remember the title or the author.  Please post a comment if you recognise the story.

What’s that actually got to do with the Northern View?  The fascination with computer related “stuff” has persisted and although I now leave the graphical creations to younger quicker nerds, I still can’t resist getting a look at some of the amazing stuff that’s out there.  In future posts I’ll be letting you know about some of the excellent graphical tools that are available to budding website owners to produce very professional looking graphics for a whole range of purposes; from inspiration to hard nosed selling.  If you can imagine it, you can bet your boots there’s a tool out there that probably does it!  Thanks for taking a look – the simple example below will take you to some beautiful free header images that you are welcome to download.