Hi.

I need help. I don't know what it means when you want to place a banner ad and it says "You MUST download the following image of your choice and upload it to your web site to display the banner on your web site."

When I send my info to the webmaster - what am I meant to put there? Why do some sites allow you to upload the banner from their site and others don't? Is it to do with bandwidth?

Could you please explain it very simply. Not very technical minded sorry.

Well, I was hoping somebody would come along who can give you a mini-tutorial on the subject, but nobody has.
All I can tell you about it is that it does use bandwidth to link to a banner.
So the site owners who are pushing their bandwidth limit would be concerned about it.
Can somebody explain this to her better than I can, please?

Ok, think about it:

If a webmaster allowed someone to link to their banner on their server, and on average, lets say 1,000 banners were shown a day a person. Now lets also assume about 10 people do this, and the banner is 20kb.

Thats 10,000 times a banner is shown a day, at 20kb, thats 200,000kb, aka 200mb of bandwidth a day. Thats 6 gigs of bandwidth a month.

Thats a whole lot.

The info the webmaster wants is the URL of the site you're advertising & the URL of where you're banner is (most times this has to be on your own site). The code below is what you would use when submitting a banner ad.

<a href="http://www.NameOfSiteYou'reAdvertising.com">
<img src="http://www.URLWhereYourBannerIs.com/images/NameOfImage.gif"></a>

The info marked bold is your info

errr....ummmm,
I'll take your word for that.

OK.

So if I don't have a website, and the site I want to advertise doesn't want me to upload from theirs, and the site that is ging to be running my banner doen't want to download it to their site.............what do I do????

I can't use that banner? Is that it?

more or less. If you don't have anyone to host your banner pm me and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks astrangemix.

At least I understand it now.

I', having the same issue. How do you download a banner and upload it? Don't understand at all. Thanks.

You need to have your own website to upload it. If you have your own site and need help pm me and I'll tell you step by step how to do it. If you don't have your own site you need to have someone to host the banner for you, have the site you are advertising with host it (most sites won't because it costs them money) or link to the site where the banner is located (usually not allowed to do this either because of bandwidth costs).

Hope that makes it clearer.

Forgot to mention if you have a free site like geocities you probably will not be allowed to link to a banner stored there.