custom.jpgWant to create a free customized WordPress blog header? Using the website, CoolText.com, will allow you to create customized headers in a flash. Creating a customized header enhances the appearance of your blog and can help you “brand” your website. I always wondered how to create a free header, and using CoolText has allowed me to quickly and easily create a free WordPress header.

Why should you check out CoolText?

  • It’s free — The great thing about using CoolText, is the fact that it’s free! You don’t have to pay a designer to create a header image for your blog.
  • It’s super easy to use – The site layout over at CoolText is very user friendly and customizing an image for your blog is super easy. You simply enter the text that you want displayed on the image, click
  • It generates images very quickly – Are you sick of playing around in photoshop and just do not want to waste any time to create a quality image? CoolText allows users to create a good image in less than 5 minutes!
  • You have absolute control — Another great feature of CoolText is the fact that you have absolute control over all settings of your generated image. You can customize the type of text, text size, color of the text, background color, etc… I think you get the picture!
  • It can help brand your blog – If you want your blog to stand-out from the crowd with a unique header image, head over to CoolText, they’ve got over 1,200 font styles to choose from, with around 30 different featured logo styles!

Below are examples of the types of images you can create by using CoolText:

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You can also use Header-Art for free WordPress blog headers

Another place that you can get a free WordPress blog header is: www.Header-Art.com. They provide some pretty nice looking header images that are very easy to work with. Just pick an image size that fits your blog header, follow the download instructions, upload the image to your header, and your done! It is relatively simple to use. You can also pay $10 dollars to customize an image, which is relatively cheap. When customizing an image you can use different colors, sizes, pictures, and themes to get the image looking exactly how you’d like.

Below are some examples from the website:

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The nice features about using this website is that all of the header images are already created. All you need to do is really download the photo, and upload it to your WordPress header!

After you’ve successfully created your free WordPress blog headers, simply upload your blog image to your header.php and you’re good to go!

For more information on uploading and designing headers, check out this information-packed WordPress guide. This guide will tell you how to change the header in a WordPress blog. The directions should be relatively easy to follow and should get you on the right track if you are a little confused!

Would you like your header image to rotate between different images?

Check out the plugin: “Header Image Rotator,” I think you’ll be satisfied! This plugin is pretty self-explanatory. Follow the installation instructions and you’ve got “rotating images” in your WordPress header.

Create your own image

Best of luck to all those hoping to create a good customized image for their WordPress blogs. The sites that I mentioned within this article should definitely help get you on the right track! If you have another site that you think should be included in this article, feel free to let me know so I can update it!

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