Need header ideas

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Need to come up with a decent header for a webby im doing and everything I've mocked up looks like utter turd.

Its a 772x160 rounded rectangle, the nav just below it is electric blue and the rest of the website is dark, grey and the blue mentioned before. The header size can be seen at www.warfinder.co.uk which is basically an old version of the site I was having issues with but you can get an idea for the colour scheme.

Can anyone suggest a place to get ideas or someone that may be interested in doing one? Google searches turn up headers far advanced beyond what im after

Im busy working on other sections of the site but looking at a nasty header and nav I may need to change to match a new header later is annoying me!
 
Thanks FabienO saved that as a good place to look for realistic inspiration and for solutions to problems not really covered by the more decorative tutorials im finding out there.

Managed to develop this from a mix of tutorials and stuff, im quite pleased with it but looking opinions. I personally think it would be awesome to have something on the right side, I was thinking a search box in a similar style to the title box or like an 'on' button that would launch the player when clicked.

Is this somehow possible to have this essentially sitting in the header/on top of the header? Anyone know of a link to explaining? I cant imagine its just messing with the z-index.

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You could mess with the z-index, but its not the right way to do it.

Your header container should use that as a background image. Then you can put the logo and a search box over the top (inside the header container) with no issues.
 
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