Banner for Volunteer Fire Dept.

[Volunteer FF]

First, I want to thank everyone for this site, its great to see so much comradery!

I will try to make this short, we have a web hosting company, they have made our website for dummies. What I mean is they gave us controls to update and add stories, photos and banners in a way easy for people with little website experience.

Recently we had a very generous company DONATE us rescue gloves for all of our members. We as a dept. would like to show our appreciation by giving him an advertising banner on our site. We can add the banner no problem but we have to have it made first. With times as they are and being 100% volunteer money is tight. So I ask if someone can make us a banner

I have pics and logos the company gave to me so I can email to get started. So email me and I will give specifics.

Hope someone is willing to lend us a hand, thanks for the time.

John

P.S. I found this site while googling "how to make free website banners" myself, as you can see it didn't work out to well, LOL


Ok, Added some pics cause ISH told me too. The website is www.kentland33.com

The photo is what I started to play with but couldnt work it out. it doesnt have to be used, just a start. I thought of cutting the excess around the pic of the glove and the dragon logo and adding it into the pic. I want it to asy "The Official Rescue Glove of Kentland 33" in the banner.

The banner needs to be 468x 120

[ishkey]

just click the "Edit" button at bottom right of your post,
then below that look for the button marked "Go Advanced" click it
You sould see "Additional Options"
Look for Attach Files and a button marked "Manage Attachments".
This is what you use to upload pics and zip files.
Please only upload files no wider than 700px.
This way the graphic artists can see what they are up against.
All like you volunteer their time, so you might have to wait, but will get a reply.

A website address is also nice to view.
Read this post Please Read Before Requesting Logo

[Volunteer FF]

More pics of the glove

[ishkey]

your banner of the hats? is really streached do you have a better one?
is there a name and a web site for this glove company?
can you give some ideas of what you are looking for?
All info helps. Think like a fire fighter who's trainning the new guy...

[Volunteer FF]

The photo was just something I was playing with, it probably isnt a wise choice for a web site banner.

I was thinking of maybe an accident type scene in the background with the company logo in the foreground with a pic of the glove. similiar to this

the glove website is www.dragonfiregloves.com

[ishkey]

how about any animated banner?

[Volunteer FF]

Man, that really looks great. Can you add "The Official Rescue Glove of Kentland 33" somewhere, maybe instead of Firemans Shield Gloves?? Will it be difficult to make this 468 x120, it is a site requirement and How do I get this to add it to the site? Awesome, Thanks for the great work.

[ishkey]

ok- how about this.
the basic code you would use to make the animation linkable/open in it's own browser window and display on the page is

<a href="http://www.dragonfiregloves.com/" target="_blank"><img src="images/DF2.gif" border="0" width="469" height="120" alt=""></a>

make sure you put the animation in your images directory or if you put it in another directory, make sure you change the directory name in the code.

[CovertPea]

Great work Dave!!!

[Volunteer FF]

ISH, I have been working on this for sometime now. It appears that through our website we can only add normal banners, it doesnt support scrolling banners at this time at least I still have to confirm as I cannot add it this way.

Would it be possible to ask you to make a change, the banner with the Dragon fire logo and the "official" statement needs a pic of the gloves in it. I want to put this one up while I figure out how to get the scrolling one up.

Everyone at the Firehouse loves the one you made and we are making every attempt to add it, I just want to get something up in the meantime.

Thanks for all your hard work, it is greatly appreciated.