If you really want to make decent banner, photoshop really is the way to go. I’ve made a lot of banners, what exactly do you want to know?
BASICS:
Keep a general theme - don’t go overboard with colors
Attention Grabbing - grab the eye with keywords, not flashy, annoying bs.
Make the user have a good reason for clicking on the ad at all.
Let me know what you need help with exactly in terms of banner making/design
Well, depends on your website girl…
Let’s see your website… How does it look like? What banner will be good or it? Odd shaped or uniformed?
Consider that first…
I can make a banner, the problem is the link that doesn’t want to work with it at all. I don’t like funky colors at all. Mine has 2, just basic and normal.
Correct, you don’t want that ugly link border. As far as embedding your banner just follow the previous post. With the border=‘0’ attribute of course;)