{"id":19342,"date":"2020-11-24T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/?p=19342"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:40:02","slug":"design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Here’s a simple design idea for small business websites: add some festive cheer to your website!<\/p>\n

This idea comes from one of my longest-runnning clients- they’ve asked me to put up a Christmas background in their website header for several years now (great idea, Activate Your Life<\/a>!). This year, I decided to add it to my own website, and I love how it looks!\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re on Wordpress or Shopify and can make basic CSS edits, you can DIY this- if you have never heard of CSS, you may want to ask a web designer to do it. For those brave souls who want to roll up their sleeves and go for it, here’s the steps I took:<\/p>\n\n

    \n
  1. I used Canva to make a custom size of 2558px x 346px, created my design, then exported as a png.<\/li>\n
  2. At my Wordpress Dashboard > Media, I uploaded my png to my Media Library. After it is uploaded, click on it to bring up the info dialog box- scroll down on the right side of that box to\u00a0 “File URL”. Keep that handy<\/li>\n
  3. Using the Inspector tool of Chrome or Firefox (right click on the header and select “Inspect”), I found the css selector for my header, and copied that bit of code<\/li>\n
  4. In Dashboard>Customize>Additional CSS, I pasted my code. Then I pasted the following code:
    \n.your-css-selector {background-image:url(“your image url here”); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: cover;}
    \nNote: Replace “.your-css-selector” and “your image url here” with your actual image URL<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Then click “Publish”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
      \n
    1. I used Canva to make a custom size of 2558px x 346px, created my design, then exported as a png.<\/li>\n
    2. On my Shopify Dashboard, I went to Settings > Files and I uploaded my png. After it is uploaded the url of the file shows next to the title. Keep that handy<\/li>\n
    3. Using the Inspector tool of Chrome or Firefox, (right click on the header and select “Inspect”) I found the css selector for my header, and copied that bit of code<\/li>\n
    4. Go to the Themes section of the Shopify<\/b> Dashboard.<\/li>\n
    5. Click on the Actions drop-down and select Edit code.<\/li>\n
    6. Open the Assets\/theme.scss.liquid file and add the following code to the very bottom of the file:
      \n.your-css-selector {background-image:url(“your image url here”); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: cover;}
      \nNote: Replace “.your-css-selector” and “your image url here” with your actual image URL<\/em><\/li>\n
    7. Save the changes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it! Just don’t forget to take it down when the holidays are over. Let the holiday season begin!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Here’s a simple design idea for small business websites: add some festive cheer to your website! This idea comes from one of my longest-runnning clients- they’ve asked me to put up a Christmas background in their website header for several years now (great idea, Activate Your Life!). This year, I decided to add it to …<\/p>\n

      Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDesign Idea: Add a festive header to your website - Erica Neubauer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Decorate your website for the holidays with a festive, temporary background image using CSS in this tutorial.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website - Erica Neubauer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Decorate your website for the holidays with a festive, temporary background image using CSS in this tutorial.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Erica Neubauer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ericasneubauer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-24T15:56:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-14T17:40:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/christmas_header_tip-32.png?fit=2226%2C2226&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2226\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2226\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Erica Neubauer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erica Neubauer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Erica Neubauer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc5ab80c597be44adf326f9e3ce272a9\"},\"headline\":\"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-24T15:56:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-14T17:40:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\"},\"wordCount\":429,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Resources\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\",\"name\":\"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website - Erica Neubauer\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-24T15:56:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-14T17:40:02+00:00\",\"description\":\"Decorate your website for the holidays with a festive, temporary background image using CSS in this tutorial.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/\",\"name\":\"Erica Neubauer Graphic Design\",\"description\":\"Graphic, Web & Logo Design and Branding for small businesses\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Erica Neubauer Graphic Design\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cropped-esn_logo-01.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cropped-esn_logo-01.png\",\"width\":250,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"Erica Neubauer Graphic Design\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ericasneubauer\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ericasneubauer\/\",\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/ericasneubauer\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc5ab80c597be44adf326f9e3ce272a9\",\"name\":\"Erica Neubauer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5ddc20a3e05d565e8a5da8c2f5530dbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5ddc20a3e05d565e8a5da8c2f5530dbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Erica Neubauer\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/author\/ericaneubauer\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website - Erica Neubauer","description":"Decorate your website for the holidays with a festive, temporary background image using CSS in this tutorial.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website - Erica Neubauer","og_description":"Decorate your website for the holidays with a festive, temporary background image using CSS in this tutorial.","og_url":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/","og_site_name":"Erica Neubauer","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ericasneubauer","article_published_time":"2020-11-24T15:56:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-06-14T17:40:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2226,"height":2226,"url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/christmas_header_tip-32.png?fit=2226%2C2226&ssl=1","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Erica Neubauer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Erica Neubauer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/"},"author":{"name":"Erica Neubauer","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc5ab80c597be44adf326f9e3ce272a9"},"headline":"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website","datePublished":"2020-11-24T15:56:24+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-14T17:40:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/"},"wordCount":429,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Resources"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/","url":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/","name":"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website - Erica Neubauer","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-11-24T15:56:24+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-14T17:40:02+00:00","description":"Decorate your website for the holidays with a festive, temporary background image using CSS in this tutorial.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/design-idea-add-a-festive-header-to-your-website\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Design Idea: Add a festive header to your website"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/","name":"Erica Neubauer Graphic Design","description":"Graphic, Web & Logo Design and Branding for small businesses","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#organization","name":"Erica Neubauer Graphic Design","url":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cropped-esn_logo-01.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cropped-esn_logo-01.png","width":250,"height":250,"caption":"Erica Neubauer Graphic Design"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ericasneubauer","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ericasneubauer\/","https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/ericasneubauer"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dc5ab80c597be44adf326f9e3ce272a9","name":"Erica Neubauer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5ddc20a3e05d565e8a5da8c2f5530dbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5ddc20a3e05d565e8a5da8c2f5530dbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Erica Neubauer"},"url":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/author\/ericaneubauer\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20040,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342\/revisions\/20040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericasneubauer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}