Creating Online Banner Ads Made Easy With Bannersketch

By: Karan Goel | 4th May 2010

Looking to create your very own online banner ads? With the Web, it doesn’t take much at all to have a banner ready to go in just minutes. You don’t have to buy any special software and no design experience is necessary either with Bannersketch.

The free tool allows you to quickly and easily create online banner ads for your product, service, or whatever you’d like to promote. Everything is highly customizable and best of all, it doesn’t have to cost you a dime!

Let’s get started and find out how to create online banner ad with Bannersketch.

First off, you’ll need to choose a banner size or template. All of the standard advertising sizes are there as presets, so you can either select from those or feel free to come up with your own height and width for the banner.

In step two, a preview will be displayed above as you pick a background color or gradient. Don’t worry about the watermark. It’s just temporary and the final product will be completely branding-free, a big plus compared to other free banner generators.

Next up are frames and text. If you want a static (not moving) banner, choose just one frame. Otherwise, more than one is a GIF animation. Then select the number of lines of text you’d like.

Next, you can edit the text colors for each line, along with adjusting the position.

Now you can move on and add a solid color border around your banner if you wish. Edit the border width, color, and save changes.

Once you’re pleased with everything, head over to the Generate tab and type in your name and email address. Bannersketch will promptly send you the banner you just generated without the watermark to download for free.

How do you create your own online banner ads? Do you know of any other good free generators? Let us know in the comments.