banners. animated or static?

[Richard Craver]

it's been awhile since i've looked around the various sites on the web

in terms of banners these days... what's happening?

any particular style of banner generating a seemingly better response?

animated? static? flash?

big or small?

text?

[Lee]

I think there is a place on everyones site for all three types.

Between placement, reason for us and what is being sold a good mix of animated and static is a must, flash should be used sparingly but used where a major impact needs to be made IMHO.

Regards,

Lee

[IdolKnights]

Creative banners have been catching my eye as of late.

Like this one pulled me in for some reason:



(A promo for Photographer: Brian Wigger)

[basschick]

that may be interesting, but it doesn't say "click me" to me - it's more like an interesting piece of art.

Richard Craver - all of the above. different people and types of webpages have different style and size requirements.

Creative banners have been catching my eye as of late.

Like this one pulled me in for some reason:



(A promo for Photographer: Brian Wigger)

[IdolKnights]

that may be interesting, but it doesn't say "click me" to me - it's more like an interesting piece of art.

It's pulled out of context to how it was used - no, the image itself doesn't state "click me" but how it was used ... Text above and below, you clearly knew it was a link as well as an artistic display of what's to come.

[Baghdad Bob]

i like using animated banners the most

[Chilihost]

I generally get animated banners done and make sure I get the psd files so that I can also make static banners out of them.

[Chilihost]

ooh...just remembered, make sure you get blog-sized banners too! 160x320 is a good size for blog sidebars.