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In the same day, we re-introduced the old (but improved) banner templates along with hundreds of brand new ones. You can get inspiration or start creating amazing banners from these templates, just change you logo or the images with your personal ones.

You should go check the new features!

You should go comment till July 7th, midnight. Wish you luck!!!

PS: tell your design and development friends about the contest.

Update 1: There are two more giveaways on Hongkiat. com and NaldzGraphics.net, two popular and great webdesign blogs.

Update 2: Another contest on WebDesignerWall.com, one of our dear collaborators, also a design blog.

• with very little effort you can have a professional banner ad. Just need to put your company name or logo and perhaps change the message a little or put your photos instead of the default.
• they are a great inspiration source. Starting from the templates that we’ve made for you, you can create a very different banner, by easily editing the template’s contents and parameters. It’s always harder to start from zero…

Knowing that banner templates can be a big help for you, we are working to make new ones. Like with the templates made for the previous version, the new ones are also organized by industry (Auto, B2B, Consumer Goods, Education, Food, Travel and many many more).

We also made interactive banner ads that will help you draw more attention and engage with your audience in a new and interesting way. In this type of banners, you can add interactive buttons and multiple links, allowing you to create banners that are much more flexible, interactive and fun.

Before I end this exciting announcement, let me share with you an interactive banner template, from the Customer Goods category. If you want to see more interactive ads made with BannerSnack, click here.

So in just a few weeks you’ll have dozens of new banner templates that you can customize and use to promote your business.

If you want to personalize the one that you like, follow these instructions:

1. Open the BannerSnack banner maker and log in or sign up.
2. On the “Templates” tab search for the term “mother”.
3. Choose one of the cards and hit “Edit” to customize.
4. When you’re done, hit “Publish” to get a permanent link that you can send to your mom.

You can also send it as it is or publish the eCard on your blog.

Happy Mother’s Day!

What I’ve discovered is that WordPress allows you to post many other kinds of flash content on your blog.wordpress.com blog, including SnackTools widgets like banners and music playlists. You only need Gigya.

Now, there are two approaches, both very simple:

1. Publish flash on WordPress via Gigya sharing widget

How to do it:

• create a banner, slideshow or playlist
• publish it
• click on “Embed code” (free or premium)

• fill the three-field form

Ready! Your flash banner/slideshow/playlist/etc has been automatically posted on your WordPress hosted blog in a new blog post. This method is easy, but can also be frustrating because you probably don’t want a blog post containing only the flash object. Besides, this method works only for services like ours, that support Gigya widgets. So that’s why you should try the second approach.

2.Publish *any* flash object using the Gigya-to-WordPress shortcode

WordPress accepts, among others, YouTube shortcodes. Likewise, it also accepts Gigya shortcodes (that’s how the approach no. 1 actually works). How to do it:

• If you’re using let’s say BannerSnack, download your banner to SWF file
• Host your SWF file somewhere (WordPress won’t allow you to upload SWF files to your media gallery). There are a lot of free file hosting websites
• Go to your blog admin and start editing an article. Instead of using the standard HTML embed code for your flash file, you’ll need to use the Gigya shortcode that looks like this (let’s say you have a 336x280px banner):

[gigya width="336" height="280" src="http://www.example.com/mybanner.swf" ]

This is the simplest code possible, but you can also add various parameters, like clickTag, wmode, bgcolor etc:

[gigya width="336" height="280" src="http://www.example.com/mybanner.swf?clickTag=http://www.example.com/targeturl.html" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="000000" ]

That’s it! You’ve managed to post flash content to your WordPress hosted blog. I’m as excited as you are!

Besides the fact that your friends will see how great a photoshopper you are (which is good for your ego), you’ll receive a BannerSnack license, depending on how many questions you answer correctly.  Answer 5 questions and we will send you an 5 months license to make lots of banner ads for your website and your nice customers, answer 8 and we will send you 8, etc.

PS: We already know you’re great, but it’s fun to take interesting tests and win something that can extend your skills, right?

Take the quiz! Have fun!

For them we came with the idea of offering an additional service: custom banner design. In other words you can now hire our experienced designers to design and animate your banners.

The idea is very simple: you order a banner, with all the details we need (including messages and images featured in your banner) and after 2 business days we’ll get back to you with the finished banner ad.

You can choose from animated flash banners or interactive flash banners, starting at $149.

If this sounds interesting to you, go to Custom Flash Banner Design page and read more about the subject.

This is how you can grab the Valentine’s day eCards and share your love:

1. Enter BannerSnack and log in
2. Go to Templates (next to My banners)
3. Choose the one you like and click Edit
4. Here you can edit your card (for example change text or add something interesting). Then click on the Publish button
5. Last step is to share your Valentine’s card. You can choose to post a link on social networks or copy the embed code and insert in your blog or website (like we did with these two banners).

Hope you’ll have the most romantic Valentine’s Day!

So here is the deal, you need to make some slick ass banner so you can go and sell some hot new product, what you should of course is stop being lazy and take some time out and learn photoshop, making sure you learn how to use layers and the animation side of things but for those of you who don’t have a design degree or several days to play with then you should certainly check out BannerSnack. Its awesome!

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