Subscribe to RSS feedThe web banner is dead
By Martin / Design, Musings / Monday March 2nd, 2009 / 2 comments
In the early days of website design, pages couldn't be more than a few kB in size, and often the only graphic elements would be a banner at the top of the page. Nowadays, however, with the advent of broadband and better tools such as CSS, a web design has become more of a wholistic excercise in which the whole page has to be considered as a single design. The days of "web banner" design are gone; while there may still be considered a portion of a page that is the banner it cannot be conceptualised or designed separately.
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norton Hah. Look at rightbanners home page. They don't have a banner. They have a logo. Not the same thing. I too see a lot more pages using all the real estate, and the logo could be anywhere. I see a lot of fixed-width pages with a smallish logo at the top that blends into a menu sort of thing, but I wouldn't call that a banner. Not the old fashioned 800x100 solid rectangular graphic, seriously contrasting colorwise with the background. Those will live on for a while on those rip-off, click-thru pages that have only banners (other sites' banners) as the content. (Porn, diet aids, matchmaking, etc.) The logo will live on, just as it has for thousands of years. But the banner? Yeah, I pretty much agree. A dying breed.
ps. your captcha expires too quickly.
Martin Thanks norton, the CAPTCHA problem should be fixed now. And you understood me perfectly.