Five Design Tips For Animated Banner Ads

Creating a great animated banner ad takes eventhey move to another web page.
more time and work than creating a static advertising3.
banner. The reason being is that animated banner adsPut your most important information first. Because
rotate frames and each frame needs to be createdyou will only have a reader's attention for 3 seconds
so that the reader thinks they are seeing somethingor less, it is important to grab their attention and give
in one fluid motion. There is a huge differencethem your information fast. Be sure you put your
between a good animated advertising banner and amost relevant information in the first few frames of
bad one. Let's take a look at some design tips toyour animated custom web banner.
help you create a great animated advertising banner.4.
1.Make your animation stand out but not clash. You
Rotate your animated banner ad at a relaxed speed.want to think about what web pages you see your
A good online banner design will not be somethinganimated banner being placed on. The goal is for your
that flashes a thousand times a minute or jumps,advertisement to stand out, but not clash with what
runs or hops across the screen as soon as the webis on the web page. Your potential customer is
page opens up. That will only serve to annoy youroriginally seeking the information on the web page,
potential customers. Instead a successful animatednot your banner ad, so try to make your advertising
banner should be tastefully done with frames rotatingbanner stand out in a way that still flows with the
at a medium speed.web page.
2.5.
Make sure it downloads fast. Sometimes potentialLimit how many times your animation loops. Another
customers don't wait for an entire page to downloadway to annoy a potential customer is if your
before they move on. It is important that you createinformation loops over and over and over again. Limit
an animated banner design that downloads fast, soit to 10 or less times and then have it freeze on the
that potential customers will actually see it beforemost important information in your advertising banner.