Do I Suck At Banners?

[DigitalJay]

I made this to enter a contest, will any of you give me some constructive criticism?

[Rainbo1956]

The picture and logo are cool...just a lil hard to read "Beach"

Other than that...I like it

I'm not the designer in the family though :goof:

[Jasun]

I'd pump up the brightness and contrast to make those colours really scream out. You've got these great blues and pinks in there, and the white shorts.. so making it just a bit more extreme will get a bit more attention and probably more clicks.

Looks good, though.

[DigitalJay]

Thanks Rainbo. I agree. I'm not really good at making text readable, it always looks kind of fuzzy and stuck together.

[Lee]

Or make it a little bolder and add a stroke around the pink to make it accented more on the blue and white of the background image

Regards,

Lee

[DigitalJay]

I agree Jasun! It didn't look bland to me b/c of the pinks and blues until I saw your reply, I just tried it and it definately does have more "kick" now.

After everyone posts, i'll post the reworked version I make with your advice and see what you all think!

[BDBionic]

*stares blankly at wet Australian ass*

... sorry... what was the thread about again?

[Rainbo1956]

Originally posted by Lee
Or make it a little bolder and add a stroke around the pink to make it accented more on the blue and white of the background image

Regards,

Lee

That's a good idea!

[iggysick]

And add some animation to it. Nothing on that banner makes me to click on it and that is purpose of banners isn't it? Just a little animation to get surfers atention will be cool.

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unsual banner size.. should get lots of attention

[Rainbo1956]

Originally posted by BDBionic
*stares blankly at wet Australian ass*

... sorry... what was the thread about again?

Hahaha...took the thoughts right outta my head

[Bell]

I have no idea if this is even a design possibility
I'm not design inclined... butt... to add some movement
to it as previously suggested - I wonder if it would be
possible to make the waves roll in (move)...

or maybe a bit of water of sweat dripping down his
body (animated)

I want to see the re-work you already did...

can you tell I am impatient ?? LOL

~Bell

[DigitalJay]

Originally posted by iggysick
And add some animation to it. Nothing on that banner makes me to click on it and that is purpose of banners isn't it? Just a little animation to get surfers atention will be cool.

Excellent idea but 400x200 banners generally aren't animated, eats up too much bandwidth. Otherwise i would.

Bell: I LOVE that idea, but things like that can't really be done without flash or the file size would be huge. I'm not ready to do flash banners yet I can't afford flash right now.

[Dzinerbear]

I'd put a stroke around the whole banner. You never know what colour background these thing will end up on and a one-pixel stroke will help contain the whole thing and prevent it from getting lost.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

[iggysick]

Originally posted by DigitalJay
Excellent idea but 400x200 banners generally aren't animated, eats up too much bandwidth. Otherwise i would.

So animate just "click here"