More banners to promote Opera

More banners to promote Opera

Is it possible to make more banners to promote Opera?
I'm willin to help as much as I can, since these that are online now do look nice, but there is too few of them...

Well, sure you can make any banners you like, but I don't think they'd add them to the banner page.

It is rather simple to make one more tab on "Banners and Buttons" page, with "unofficial banners" categorised by size so people can choose.

It is, indeed, and I'd like to see that.

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

Is it possible to make more banners to promote Opera?
I'm willin to help as much as I can, since these that are online now do look nice, but there is too few of them...

We're always interested in seeing what people come up with. If your buttons or banners are good, we'd love to put them among our current ones.

Glad to hear that... I will give it a shot...
Where to post them? Here?

I'd like to see a 180x60 px version of the official dark red one ("Innovation delivered").

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

Where to post them? Here?

Yeah, I'll subscribe to this thread and you can just post them here. You can also send me a My Opera message if you want to really get my attention.

Searching "banners" should give banners.

http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?keyword=banners&maximumhits=15&platform=winnew

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

Searching "banners" should give banners.

You've searched Opera's knowledge base on opera.com. The banners are on my.opera.com (Choose Opera > Banners and buttons).

I won't page you... no need to disturb you, you surely have much more important things to do
Just as an example... 80x15 images... if yhey are ok.. i will make some more of those and try bigger...
Tell me if is should continue thinking and working, or you consider this a crap

80x15 - Opera Browser - Black on white - link

80x15 - Proud user - Black on white - link
80x15 - Proud user of Opera 8 - Black on white - link

80x15 - Opera Browser - White on red - link
80x15 - Opera Browser - White on dark yellow - link
80x15 - Opera Browser - White on blue - link
80x15 - Opera Browser - White on dark green/blue - link
80x15 - Opera Browser - White on dark green - link

Originally posted by scipio:

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

Searching "banners" should give banners.

You've searched Opera's knowledge base on opera.com.

Looks that way, jep.

The banners are on my.opera.com (Choose Opera > Banners and buttons).

You mean the banners are here:
http://my.opera.com/community/promote/buttons/

My point was: the search doesn't work.

Really bad error if your promoting something.

web designer searches > finds nothing > going to do something else > 10 000+ banner views waisted = 1000$ in free advertisement.

That would worry me a lot! But thanks for helping me.

BTW..
Is there some way to hide the banner advertisement from (already) Opera users? Any other advertisement or content would be better.

Originally posted by Tamil:

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

80x15 - Opera Browser - White on red - link

I like this one.

bit small?

Maybe some one can draw me a big one? 400X300

I just found this, I think it's the best banner I've ever seen.

http://nontroppo.org/test/Op7/Opera-logo-critique.png

I wouldn't mind seeing some images in the "normal" advertisement sizes...

728x90 (Letterboard)
468x60 (Full Banner)
234x60 (Half Banner)
160x600 (Skyscraper - Wide)
120x600 (Skyscraper)
120x240 (Tower)

It'd be nice to have some Opera Ads to throw into my rotation.

Read again my message.

These are all looking really good! Keep up the good work. I'll see about getting them up in a more convenient place for everyone to use.

Originally posted by d3bruts1d:

I wouldn't mind seeing some images in the "normal" advertisement sizes...

728x90 (Letterboard)
468x60 (Full Banner)
234x60 (Half Banner)
160x600 (Skyscraper - Wide)
120x600 (Skyscraper)
120x240 (Tower)

It'd be nice to have some Opera Ads to throw into my rotation.

I was thinking of rotating opera banners as alternate ad.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=106181&t=1129211589&page=1#comment1150482

I really think more information about the features would be more useful as a banner.

An Opera adserver should supply us with the standard adsense formats so we only have to past the url in the adsense form.

728 X 90 sounds better as 18 X 80. Just as much as A mini website would be better as a button. Opera already knows how to design very awesome mini websites. Now I want one in a google ad frame. ^_^ It can even serve different content to different browsers.

It should (of course) also work in an iframe. Things like A tip of the day in 468x60. Just design it in a way so we can be lazy at our adsense dashboard.

(Not that I would want that but) If I put to much adds on a new page with only a little bit of content most of the addblocks will stay empty and it will mess up the page. So, the adsense users have to find a balance to make sure the blocks that they use are always full.

Simply put, A 5 word blog posting with some images spawns empty ads. This actually is annoying, I would much prefer to show off Opera coolness in stead.

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

My point was: the search doesn't work.

And my point was you were searching in the wrong place.

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

You mean the banners are here:
http://my.opera.com/community/promote/buttons

Or you select Choose Opera in the navigation menu (of my.opera.com pages) and then Banners and Buttons.

Originally posted by brianj:

These are all looking really good! Keep up the good work. I'll see about getting them up in a more convenient place for everyone to use.

Ok, I'll post all I make here, and then do what ever you want

Originally posted by scipio:

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

My point was: the search doesn't work.

And my point was you were searching in the wrong place.

Yeah I guess I was. I was used to searching things from the address bar with the keywords. So I just typed "O banners" hoping to find this knowledge.

I'm all new here so I was confused by the different searches. Opera.com gives other results.

Maybe the knowledge base could have an option to search opera.com from the same search box. Having 2 search boxes on one page like that looks odd.

http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?options=complete&maxhits=0&platform=&name=banner

I have no idea the other box is something else? All I know is that I got here from the browser search keyword "O"

Made few more...
80x15.zip - 10 static - 9 kb - [download]
88x31.zip - 6 animated - 19 kb - [download]
120x40.zip - 5 animated - 18 kb - [download]
120x120.zip - 6 (3x2) animated - 42 kb - [download]

Post your oppinions...
If you like these, I'll try to continue to bigger sizes , next one would be 234x60 468x60 maybe 120x240 and then if ok, we will se...

Also.. Nice slogans, ideas, highly apreciated...

Cool buttons man!

Because I hate Mozilla

Hell yeah, it's better as Firefox.

never type your passwords

never type your user names

Track & sort all your rss feeds

Use the mouse gestures

Use keyboard commands

Zoom that page

Save your sessions

Continue surfing where you left off

Make mouse gestures with links

Dive into greasemonkey

Opera = surfing + rss + email + chat

Feedback people.... need more feedback...

234x60.zip - 6 (2x3) animated - 36 kb - [download] [link fixed]
120x240.zip - 3 (1 animated - 2 static) - 47 kb - [download]

If there is no interest in this I will not continue

Put up a web page that has all those banners as inlines. Downloading .zip's to look at graphics is a pain, leads to lack of feedback. Similar to searching for "banners" in the wrong search engine...

>Bela<

Brian already said that he will put when we are done buttons somewhere in current banner section. All I want is to hear if these are any good and if you have ideas hov to improve them or future one... and all i got was one reply by gabydewilde...

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

Brian already said that he will put when we are done buttons somewhere in current banner section. All I want is to hear if these are any good and if you have ideas hov to improve them or future one... and all i got was one reply by gabydewilde...

I'm still in the process of finding a suitable place to put them online (I'm thinking of a section for "Fan Buttons / Art". But yes, they're very good. Keep up the good work!

I am having trouble myself finding the banners. I have one but since then they have more or less disappeared.

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.opera.com/download/" title="Download Opera" ><img src="http://promote.opera.com/small/opera88x31.gif" width="88" height="31" alt="Opera Web Browser" /></a>

I would like a banner for promoting the opera blog.

Does anyone know if we are allowed to use the blog space for hotlinking banners?

(40X11 2kb) http://my.opera.com/gabydewilde/homes/files/Opera_mini-banner.jpg

I'll continue with whese as soon as I have time...

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

Brian already said that he will put when we are done buttons somewhere in current banner section. All I want is to hear if these are any good and if you have ideas hov to improve them or future one... and all i got was one reply by gabydewilde...

And all I was saying is, you'll get more feedback if you make it easier for people to look at the banners. I looked at the one posted by gabydewilde a couple of messages up, because all I had to do was click on it. To look at yours I have to download a .zip, expand it, look at the individual files. I could do that but it turns out to be more effort than I'm willing to do at that moment.

You are making every reader perform that same calculation. Some will do it, some won't. If you posted a link to a web page with all the images inline, a higher percentage of readers would look at them -- and you would get more feedback.

>Bela<

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

Does anyone know if we are allowed to use the blog space for hotlinking banners?

Your My Opera account would be a great place to host them for now.

Also - once we get a fan submitted buttons page up, which would you most like to see on there? We'd like to put them all up, but it might be a bit overwhelming.

I'd personally like to see some My Opera Community buttons.

I think that you might cathegorize them by size...
One page as an index where you will make list of sizes where each one will open on new page with selection of banners of that size, and maybe also static / animated categories..
I believe that most of the users will use smaller banners so I will make some more of those soon (need to get some sleep... worked too many hours these last days)...
For those huge banner sizes... Maybe i can make something static since animated would probably be to "heavy".. If anyone has an idea what he would like to see on those speak up and I'll try to make them... I had some ideas with screenshoting real opera layout and adding some stuff but the ideas are incomplete... so suggestions are welcome..

Anyway.. I'm gone, and when I'm back I will make sure to prepare something about commynity... and maybe make some sort of preview page for banners on my blog... we will see...

See http://www.armory.com/~filbo/opera/SerbianFighterBanners/index.html. These are SerbianFighters's banners, extracted and crammed into a minimalist vaguely HTML page...

Now that I've spent the time to look at them... I really like the last two 120x240's with the floral backgrounds. Animated banners are actively ignored by my eyes -- if they're distracting enough I'll whip out the kill-elements script and blow them off the page. So I would recommend concentrating on non-animated banners...

>Bela<

Damn... I made post to my blog with same thing... oh well on blog i can't organize them like that, so I'll delete my post.... Thanks for this page Didn't really have time to do it...
I agree about animated ones, especially when there are more than one on the page like there...
Anyway... I'm off to bed

I have a creative block...
Tried making banners, but except for the 80x15, no luck..
If anyone has ideas or something made to share, he is welcome..
I'll be making panels, wallpapers as i did last few days...

Hey, where's the SVG love? Your browser is the only major one to currently support the SVG image format (still waiting on Firefox 1.5) but I think you should put some SVG banners out there. Someone translated an .eps file into SVG for me awhile ago and I've stored it here: http://www.codedread.com/images/svg/opera.logo.svg

Someone with artistic talent should be able to do much more cooler things - just download Inkscape (inkscape.org).

Originally posted by jeff_schiller:

http://www.codedread.com/images/svg/opera.logo.svg

Incidentally, that image is 6 kb (un-gzipped), doesn't it look beautiful?

Originally posted by jeff_schiller:

Originally posted by jeff_schiller:

http://www.codedread.com/images/svg/opera.logo.svg

Incidentally, that image is 6 kb (un-gzipped), doesn't it look beautiful?

it looks great but it doesn't work in IE.

Originally posted by gabydewilde:

Originally posted by jeff_schiller:

Originally posted by jeff_schiller:

http://www.codedread.com/images/svg/opera.logo.svg

Incidentally, that image is 6 kb (un-gzipped), doesn't it look beautiful?

it looks great but it doesn't work in IE.

Hm, works for me with IE and the Adobe SVG Viewer...

Or are you making a crack about SVG support? You realize that all formats have this chicken-and-egg problem right? What's the problem with putting banners in formats up that some browsers support?

My complete oppinion regarding this topic you can read here

Just saw the link to this in front page.
Very nice stuff.

SerbianFighter, good job with all this. I spotlighted the thread for all the hard work. I'd spotlight you if I knew how. o_o;

I'm glad you like it people.. I neglected banners and done more with wallpapers
As for spotlighting user, just enter his profile and click the little star on top

There we go. ^^

I've been reading all the posts in this thread carefully, and can appreciate the great interest in developing banners and paraphanelia for Opera. Serbianfighter, my congratulations to you. Your dedication to this matter is extra-ordinary. Thank you for your efforts, I can't emphasize enough my deep appreciation. You should be part of Opera's marketing staff. I'll vote for that anytime.

I've been working on some various Opera related banners that people might like... I'll upload them to my server later this week, but a sample of what I'm doing can be found here. I'll include the master PSD for each banner when I get things set up on my server.

Comments welcome.

The idea is nice, you just need to use the same font as google does.

I tried to get it as close to the Google/Yahoo text ads as possible without actually copying them completly. I'm not sure exactly what font/size they use (I think it is TNR), so I went with Arial/Verdana, and then just picked a size/color that was readable.

I created a couple 728x90 letterboards last night using the same format. I'll try and post everything I've done thus far including the PSD files tonight.