The Hurbicide Guru

Web banners online normally occur in two formats. The first form is the conventional advertisement banner, normally applied as a means to advertise another site, as a click on the banner takes one to the advertised website. The second form is located at the very top of a typical site - the site header area. This location commonly acquaints a visitor to the website with a title, maybe a secondary strapline, and of course graphics to help theme the website. Advertisement and header banners play critical purposes in both driving traffic to a website, and helping make a website retain each individual for an extended time on the site - by instructing them simply with what the website is about, and enticing them to browse further, applying persuasive graphics and strapline text.

How to make banners in the first place? There are many online banner makers which are able to serve you with this project. Not only that but many also provide you with web banner hosting as well. Simply type in a phrase like web banner maker into a search engine and you will locate plenty of online services.

What info to set in your banner? If you have a shopping website, it’s a good plan to put the payment gateways your website uses for taking payment, because it presents to people a visual cue that your site is an e-commerce store as well as letting them know how they can pay. Place some graphics of the items you are selling as well, as this is a further visible cue as to which sort of products you sell. The strap line text is critical too. Make sure the strapline distinctly and briefly states what the website is about in just 5 to 7 words.

And as obvious as all this may be, a misapprehension numerous sites make is to take for granted every visitor will know such information before-hand. One can’t take for granted that the visitor knows such information, so one must hold every visitant’s hand in those precious first few seconds they visit your website.