banner image

A  banner image  is a wide image (AKA header image or hero image ), typically in an aspect ratio of 2:1 to 4:1, displayed as a backdrop at the top of a profile page or post permalink.

Why
Banner images help give a home page a distinctive, recognizable look, and can also provide a text overlay of the tagline of a site or page.

Topical banner images can be used to give a summary or an evocative context for a blog post on a specific topic.

How to
Embed a banner image near or at the top of a page, optionally stretching it using CSS to fill the full width of the page.

If your banner image has text, please make sure you mark it up alt text for that text at a minimum, and regardless, consider a brief textual description of the image as well.

How to markup
⚠️ There is currently no agreed upon way of marking up banner images in general, aside from a strong encouragement to provide alt text.

🤔 A banner image for a post could be marked up as a u-featured image, however, there are no known examples of doing so.

⛔️ DO NOT mark up as a, because a banner image is decorative content, NOT primary content, unless you are literally posting about the banner image itself (or multiple.

IndieWeb Banners
Thanks to for these banners!

General description: artistic looking banners using a beautiful photo background and a pithy IndieWeb-related statement or call to action in white serif text on top, with "indieweb.org" in an IndieWeb logo colored (yellow, orange, red) smaller text somewhere separate from the pithy statement.

Home Page
"The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the 'corporate web'."

Connect
"Figure out how you want to fit into the network."

Control
"Control you don’t typically find in social media"

Your Home
"Build the internet home you’ve always wanted."

"The home you’ve always wanted on the internet."

Creative Freedom
"Your words. Your way."

"The web is your canvas. Don’t let a corporation limit you."

"The web is your canvas. Which brush will you choose?"

Principles
Principles and their metaphors.

"All our amps go to eleven."

Own Your Data
"Reap what you sow. Plant your content into the field of your own website."

"Who needs a billion dollar typewriter? Type it for your website."

Eat What You Cook
"Slow Social Try eating what you cook on your own website Rely less on the unhealthy fast food of corporate social media"

Independence
"Do your own thing."

"Knit your own web identity."

Escape Silos
"Don’t let your content rot in the dilapidated corporate social media silos."

"Why are you still posting your content to social media instead of your own website?"

"Not all social media is the same."

"The bright idea that corporate social media missed."

Temporal or Seasonal
"Once the haze of 2020 lifts, consider a healthier way to manage your online identity and social media."

"Happy Newwww.Year!"