New website header

As you may remember from my post back in November 2008, I really disliked the header on my website that came with the WordPress theme I had chosen. Unfortunately, uploading a new header was not as simple as I had imagined it would be because the header is split into three separate image files.

Here’s a reminder of what the site looked like before:

This weekend I spent hours, literally hours, learning my way around Adobe Illustrator.

I then bought an illustration on iStock from a designer called -M-I-S-H-A- whose illustrative style I love and used Adobe Illustrator to modify the illustration to fit the header space.

Considering my lack of design skills, I was thoroughly pleased with the result. It still needs a lot of tweaking until I’ll be entirely happy but it’s a vast improvement on the stock-like imagery that was there before.

See my new header here.