For the second post in the Kin Keihan Times X series, I'll be featuring the headers used in my former blog.
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Back when I started the Kin Keihan Times on Friendster Blogs in 2008, it didn't have a customized header. It was only two years later (in 2010) when I started using creating my first customized header for the blog.
This is my first attempt at making a customized header. It features two pictures taken from a mobile phone, both edited using Photoshop. The header, however, is created using Microsoft Paint. It featured the name of the blog, the URL, and my pseudonym, Keihancarl Oikou Xiaucham. It is the only header I used on the Friendster Blogs version of KKT.
Since migrating to WordPress, I decided to divide the KKT into two sites: the main blog and the literary blog. For this, I created two identical headers for these sites using Photoshop. The picture is on the right side of the headers.
By then, my former blog switched to a dark-colored theme, meaning I need to create a matching header for these sites. It took me a while to achieve the desired look, in which I managed to fade photo edges to black.
The next set of headers use the same photo from the first set of headers on KKT-WP sites, edited differently to distinguish it from the first one. The picture is positioned on the left side of the headers.
In 2012, the main blog switched to a rose-colored theme, which is the final theme used for the blog prior to its shut down the following year. Anyway, it features an edited photo and the stylish font used for the blog name. The URL is then removed.
Meanwhile, the KKT Literary Corner had a nice header, using the same picture as the main blog’s, but it was tinted red. While the main blog switched to the rose-colored theme, the literary blog still uses the dark-colored theme.
Regarding the second header, I was initially planning to use it as the literary blog’s header back when I was planning to write a dystopian-type novel named the Dark Circle. It is loosely inspired by Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale. The excerpt is then expected to be posted on the literary blog. Unfortunately, the project never pushed through due to lack of interest and extreme case of procrastination, and the second header remains unused.
This is the only header I created exclusively for the KKT’s Facebook page. The black-and-gold header is the simplest one I’ve ever made. It is done using MS Paint.
Well, these are the headers used in my former blog the Kin Keihan Times. Even then, I’m pretty much creative with creating my own blog headers as a result of being a perfectionist.
So I’m done with featuring the headers. Next time, I’ll be featuring the literary works and some of the special posts. I’ll work on it as soon as I can.
