Today We are going to talk about adding a banner to your landing page/squeeze page in WordPress.  By now, you should have registered a domain name and attached a blog to it using WordPress.  If you aren’t caught up, please refer to the previous 2 posts.

By default, the latest version of WordPress comes with a standard header within the generic theme known as  – Twenty Ten 1.1 by the WordPress team

This might very well be all you want to bother with, and it looks much nicer than any other one that WordPress has used in the past.  Here is a picture of the default header graphic in the wordpress twenty ten theme.

If you want to be more adventuresome, you can add a header graphic to this page quite easily.  On your wordpress dashboard, go down the left sidebar til you see the word “appearance”.  Click the dropdown arrow and select header.

Once you have opened the custom theme page, you will see the default header graphic and some options below it.  You have the option to upload a .jpg image that will overwrite the existing one.  Just be sure that the dimensions are 940 x 198.  That is 940 pixels wide by 198 pixels tall.

The other options are to activate one of the other graphics by clicking the radio button next to it and click the save changes button at the bottom.

Once you have loaded the new banner, you will have the stationary and you are well on your way to publishing on the web.  Happy Blogging!