Banner ideas

[Dave A]

I'm playing with a few banners to use for promoting our site.

This is what I've come up with so far:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

What do you like?
What don't you like?
Any suggestions?

If you happen to get the urge to use one of these banners on your site, here's a code option you can use:

<a href="http://www.theforumsa.co.za"><img src="http://www.theforumsa.co.za/images/forumsa_468_60_5.png" border="0" alt="The Forum SA" /></a>

This particular code snippet would reference banner 5. To choose a different banner, change the last number just before the .png part of the code.

You can also change the link reference to include your referrer code. Simply replace

<a href="http://www.theforumsa.co.za">

with

<a href="http://www.theforumsa.co.za/index.php?referrerid={userid}">

[Graeme]

No 4 is the most striking. Well done.

[RKS Computer Solutions]

Combination of 2 and 4...

Light grey background; Let's Talk Business in BOLD, but letters not too fancy, and tag line of A South African discussion forum....

[Dave A]

Thanks Riaan. I've pulled that suggestion together to make no. 5 above.

[stephanfx]

Think I will be going with number....... 5!

[RKS Computer Solutions]

Cheers Dave, 5 is into my Ad server...

Hope it helps this forum...

[Dave A]

Thanks, Riaan. Every bit helps.

[Debbiedle]

een en vyf!

[SilverNodashi]

I like no.4 & no.5

[Dave A]

Thanks SoftDux. I think the layout idea got more refined as I got feedback.

I was thinking the first prize is that once you've got a layout kinda working, it really comes down to color schemes - which is heavily affected by the color scheme of the site on which it's going to be displayed. I'm hoping between 3, 4 and 5 I've got most bases covered, but I was thinking:

It would be really sweet if there was a piece of software that would use the layout, but apply a custom selected color scheme defined by the client - something like how Google does their thing with Adsense. Are there any options out there?

[Eugene]

I quite like no 5: Bold, to the point with a clear invitation to someone that might be interested to join. Well done on the site!

[Dave A]

Thanks Eugene and welcome.

It's really a result of everyone's contributions - a true team effort - and it's just great to see that team expanding.