Every good site needs a graphical header for the top of the page. It's what
people have been trained to expect, much like a headline or photo at the top
of a newspaper or magazine article. It's the defining moment that tells a web
site visitor what your site is about and what value you bring to the table.
Without it, people tend to abandon your site quickly because it takes too long
to determine just what your web site is truly all about.
There are many ways to create a graphical header. You can use Photoshop and
royalty free artwork, you can use plain text (not recommended), or you can use
a tool that is designed to do nothing but graphical header design. Xheader
is a new entry in the latter and worth your time and consideration because it
does a nice job and because it's free.
XHeader
is a rather powerful tool in that is comes with an extensive library of
ready-made professionally designed headers and a powerful editor to customize
them. You can add text with a variety of effects including drop-shadow, glow,
outline, chisel and emboss. You can draw a variety of lines and figures, add
images, and move objects between graphical layers. It's a pretty impressive
little tool.
XHeader
is brought to you by the folks who developed XSite
Pro, one of the best damned web site design tools in existence. You
can use XHeader to
design graphical headers for your XSite
Pro web sites or for any other type of web site. To learn more please
click here.
XHeader
