Designing Effective Graphical Banners For Promotions

July 12, 2010

Designing Effective Graphical Banners For Promotions

By Eric Leuenberger

With the tools available today, just about anyone can design a graphical banner for a promotion. But designing a banner and designing a banner that gets results is quite different.

In general you want to design your promotion to work with the user eyeflow. Standard reading is left to right so this works best. Placement of elements within the ad also is important and should be considered.

Here are some things your promotional banner could (or should) include in order to increase it's effectiveness.

1) If using photos the photo should reflect the promo to some degree and should have room to integrate headlines etc… without making it difficult to read. Oftentimes finding the right photo can be the toughest part. The photo should direct the eye to elements within the ad yet not overwhelm. Sites like iStock have a great selection at very reasonable prices.

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