January 1, 2001

The Fundamentals of Professional Web Sites    

This Week’s:

Features

Step-by-Step: We Don't Want Your Kind Around Here - Alienating Visitors

On Focus: Writers — Part 4
— Promoting a Writer's Work to Publishers & Agents

Banner Sizes By the Numbers

Reviews

A Home for Writers - WriterSpace.com

Call Me an Idiot! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Marketing

Techniques

Instant Art - Instant Illustrations from Stock Photos

 

Features

Plan your web site with standard banner sizes in mind.

Banner Sizes By the Numbers

by Carolyn Cooper

Banner ads are the basic building-blocks of web advertising. Banner ads can be used to promote other sites or additional services and sections of your own site. Through the years, the Internet community has standardized on specific sizes for banner ads. If you are planning to include banner ads, you should consider these standards when designing your site.

Name

Pixel
Width

Pixel
Height

Full Banner

486

60

Full banner with navigation bar

392

72

Half Banner

234

60

Vertical Banner

120

120

Square Button

125

125

Button One

120

90

Button Two

120

60

Micro Button

88

31

When including banner ads on a web page, restraint is recommended. Too many ads dilute the effectiveness of the ads and your entire page. You should also limit the amount of animated or other multimedia ads, including interstertial, that appear on a page. More than one ad in each screen is simply distracting and annoying, like the blink tag or uncontrolled use of dynamic HTML. If a page is too distracting or annoying, visitors move on.

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