Your Storefront Deserves a Proper Header: The AI Header Banner Studio

Your storefront header is the first thing every visitor sees. It's the digital equivalent of your shop window — the thing that tells a stranger, in two seconds, whether this business is worth their time.

A lot of small business storefronts have a generic placeholder image or a blurry photo taken on a bad day. We built the AI Header Banner Studio to make that genuinely easy to fix.

The Problem with DIY Design

Canva is wonderful. We recommend it. But for a lot of small business owners — especially those running things solo — opening a design tool, choosing a template, figuring out dimensions, downloading in the right format, uploading to the right place... it's one of those tasks that keeps getting pushed back.

The AI Header Banner Studio removes that entire chain of decisions.

How It Works

Option 1: AI-Generated Banner from Your Brand

The AI reads your shop name, business type, colour preferences, and any tagline you've written, then generates a custom banner image. You can regenerate with different styles — minimal and clean, bold and colourful, dark and premium — until you find one that fits.

Styles available:

• Clean Minimal: White or slate background, your logo prominent, typography-led
• Gradient Bold: Deep colour gradients with your business name overlaid
• Photography Blend: Combines a relevant stock photo with your branding
• Seasonal: Holiday-themed frames you can swap in for Christmas, summer promotions, and similar

Option 2: Upload Your Own

If you have a photo you love — your products on a beautiful flat lay, your shop interior, a dish you're proud of — upload it and we'll apply your logo and optional text overlay for you.

Option 3: Start from a Template

Choose from a library of pre-designed templates organised by business type — food, beauty, fashion, market stalls, services — and customise the text and colours.

Dimensions and Display

Whizzly storefronts use a 1440 × 520px hero banner on desktop and a 768 × 400px crop on mobile. The Studio handles both automatically — you don't have to think about it.

A Few Design Principles Worth Knowing

Your face (or your product's face) builds trust: Storefronts with photos of the actual products, or the person behind the brand, consistently perform better than abstract graphics. If you can photograph your best-selling product beautifully and use it as your header, do that.

Keep text minimal in banners: A header image with a paragraph of text is overwhelming. One strong line — your tagline, your core offer, or even just your business name in a beautiful font — is enough.

Consistency matters: Your banner colour palette should reflect your overall brand. If your logo is teal and gold, don't use a hot pink banner.

Activation

Dashboard → Powerups → AI Header Banner Studio. Generate costs 10 AI tokens per creation. Uploading your own image is always free.

Available on all Whizzly plans.