CreateBanner.com
Create advertising banners and social media backgrounds online
Create a free banner online!
Do you need a banner or a social media background for Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn? Create your own today online for free. No software installation and no previous experience needed.
Let me tell you a little secret….
Would you like to know how to get thousands of legitimate Twitter followers with as little work as possible?
I guess we’ve all seen the Twitter account of Obama with over 270,000 followers and wanted the same for our own Twitter accounts. 270,000 could be a little bit hard to obtain for someone who’s not the US president, but a few thousands of followers is actually not impossible.
Instead of trying to follow as many as possible yourself, or even start spamming like some people do, you can get yourself a Twitter downline at XavierMedia.com. By joining and only referring 5 people you could have a chance at nearly 20,000 followers.
Here’s how it’s working: If you refer 5 people you end up in their downline which means that when they refer 5 people each you get 25 followers and end up in their downline too. So if they too refer 5 people each you get a total of 155 followers!!!! If each and every one refer 5 people each you could after 6 levels end up with almost 20,000 followers on Twitter.
It’s completely free to join and even if you’re not getting 20,000 followers you could end up with a lot more then you have today, so you have absolutely nothing to lose 
Read more and join at XavierMedia.com.
Twitter the banners you create
CreateBanner.com is the first of Xavier Media’s services to use our new API for making long boring link short: 2ve.org
The feature we’ve added to use 2ve.org is a Twitter button found in both the VIP area and the banner designer where you can Twitter your banner. The link to your banner will be shortened with the help of 2ve.org, causing the links to be even shorter then TinyURL.com so you can Twitter more text . We’re doing this to give you even more options to share you banners with friends and family (and to give you a chance to show us and the world how good you are at designing banners).
To Twitter about your banner you simply just click on the Twitter icon after you’ve saved your banner. You will then be sent to Twitter with a short link to your banner pre-filled in the message box at Twitter. Easy isn’t it?
As a small side effect of all this you can now follow CreateBanner.com on Twitter. Just click here to follow @CreateBanner. As a follower you will get updates from our blog and a few other banner creation tips and tricks. Later we’ll even give away some trial VIP membership to people who follow us, so make sure you start following us as soon as possible: @CreateBanner
How to design a banner for free
Surprisingly often I get the question “how do I create a banner” from people. So therefore I’m writing this short tutorial to show you how easily you can do it at CreateBanner.com.
Select a banner size
The first thing you need to do is to select a banner size. We got the most common sizes you your need, but we’re planning to increase the number of sizes in the near future so if you got suggestions please let us know.
The most common size for banner exchanges is the 468×60 banner and the most common sizes for blogs and blog banner exchanges is the 125×125 Medium Button 3.
When you’ve selected the size you want, just click on the “create banner button” to go to the next step.
Write your text
Click on the banner where you would like to start writing your text. You may add up to 15 lines of text per banner by just clicking where you want your text to start.
For each line of text you can select a font, font color, size, angle and many more settings. You can also use the checkbox to add shadow to your text if you like.
If the banner is not updated with the changes you do hit the “Update preview” to redraw the banner.
When you’re done with the first line of text you just click on the banner where the next line of text should start.
Banner colors
You can select to have just one background color (solid) or you can choose two colors that will blend into each other (gradient):
When you select the color you can either click on the color tool to select a color, or you can write the HTML color code in the text field. Easiest is of course to click on the color tool box. If you’ve selected gradient color as background you will have two color toolboxes so you can choose which colors should blend into each other.
This is an example of a banner with solid background color:
And this is an example of a banner with the above background color blending into a white color (gradient):
Border
You can add a border to your banner too is you like. First you select the size of your border (in pixels) and then you select the color you want on your border. The color selection tool is the same as above so if you know the HTML code for the color you want you can fill it in instead of clicking on a color.
Save your banner
When you’ve created a banner you want to use on for example your web site, Myspace page, in your blog or in a banner exchange you press the “Save banner” button. You will then be taken to the HTML code you need to use your banner, or if you like you can save the banner to your own computer and upload it to your own hosting account but more about that in a later tutorial.
Good luck creating your banners!