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.
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