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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

A banner image for a post should be marked up as a u-featured image inside the post h-entry. Like any image, please provide alt text for the banner image. See the #IndieWeb_Examples below for real world examples of such markup.

โ›”๏ธ DO NOT mark up as a u-photo, because a banner image is decorative content, NOT primary content, unless you are literally posting about the banner image itself (or multiple).

IndieWeb Examples

Add yourself!

Add yourself hereโ€ฆ (see this for more details)

epoch

epoch banner image on homepage marked up as a u-featured

Chris Aldrich

Chris Aldrich on uses u-featured on an <img> tag on all articles at http://boffosocko.com with WordPress Post Thumbnails/Featured Images (retroactively since 4/25/17); also used selectively on posts since ~2/2017

The Lazarus Corporation

Paul Watson uses u-featured on an <img> tag inside the h-entry on the banner images for his blog posts since September 2024:

IndieWeb Banners

Thanks to Chris Aldrich 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".

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Connect

Figure out how you want to fit into the network.

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Control

Control you donโ€™t typically find in social media

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Your Home

Build the internet home youโ€™ve always wanted.

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The home youโ€™ve always wanted on the internet.

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Creative Freedom

Your words. Your way.

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The web is your canvas. Donโ€™t let a corporation limit you.

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

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Principles

Principles and their metaphors.

All our amps go to eleven.

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Own Your Data

Reap what you sow. Plant your content into the field of your own website.

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

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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

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Independence

Do your own thing.

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Knit your own web identity.

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Escape Silos

Donโ€™t let your content rot in the dilapidated corporate social media silos.

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

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Not all social media is the same.

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The bright idea that corporate social media missed.

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Temporal or Seasonal

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

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Happy Newwww.Year!

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