I honestly think I enjoy creating the banners for this site more than writing the posts they accompany! This page is an attempt to collate all of them in one place, though it may be missing a few.
The vast majority of these are my own photographs or designs. It should be obvious which ones aren’t.
Banners created for specific posts and pages
Penguin cartoon – January 7, 2009 (One of my most popular posts, thanks to search engine traffic.)
Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 – October 6, 2011
I had originally used this image for my Steve Jobs tribute post and on the homepage:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that not just anyone can edit – January 2, 2012 (one of the posts I’m most proud of, for the content, the format and the banner.)
Stop SOPA/PIPA! – January 18, 2012
Chroma Feed – March 17, 2012 (This was the logo of a website I ran for a short while.)
Election 2012: Gabalfa, Cardiff – May 3, 2012
I’ve used this image of Neil Armstrong’s foot a few times. My favourite post it features on: The Russians used a pencil – May 7, 2012
Stylish cyclists of Cardiff, my contribution to #CardiffMakeaMag – October 6, 2012
Some very cool WordPress plugins – October 8, 2012 (I also have some WordPress logo freebies.)
Plan 9 From Outer Space, Inception style – November 5, 2012
Some of my favourite Instagram photos – January 2, 2013
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor (and how to use it for SEO) – January 19, 2013
The infographics of xkcd – January 22, 2013
Yesterday I wrote a fairly popular blog post – January 23, 2013
Babylon 1999 – March 2, 2013
Random banners
I have these set to rotate randomly on the homepage and on individual posts and pages with no set featured image.
Retired banners
Occasionally I get tired of banners and remove them from rotation.
On Posterous
When I first registered the halfblog.net domain, it was hosted on Posterous. This was the first header I used:
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