Advertising Banners

How To Create a Banner 

A banner is a picture that is associated with links to a desired website for advertising a product, service or business opportunity that can be used throughout many places on the internet, such as conventional websites or blogs.

Creating a banner is a four-step process:

1.      Create a picture:  utilizing whatever picture program you prefer, create a picture to use in your banner.

2.    Upload your picture to the internet.  Make note of the url address where your picture is uploaded to on the internet.

3.    Copy the following html code and place it in your own document.

<a href="address link to send visitor to"><img src="address link where picture is stored" alt="Very short description of picture" height="130" width="250" border="0" align=”left” /></a>

Within the code, replace the red text with the appropriate information.  Be careful to leave the quotes.

a.     The href section is for the url address to which you would like to send your visitor, such as your capture page or your business website.

b.    The img src is the url address where your banner picture is stored.

c.     The alt text is a very short description of what the picture is.  Do NOT stuff the alt text with keywords.  Search engines do not like that and it will be counter-productive.

d.     The height, width and border are in a measurement unit called pixels.  Pixels are very, very tiny.  Play with these settings until your banner is the correct size.

e.     Align is the alignment of the banner within the area the code is placed and can be “left”, “center” or “right”.

4.    Add the html code for your banner to your blogs or website if you have access to the html coding of either.

I suggest you save a copy of your banner picture and html code within a word document so you can reference them for future use.

For instructions on how to create animated pictures, click here.