Creative Banner Design is Yours!

Try it out

Design, test, re-design & deploy your own expanding, push down, peel or takeover banners.

What are expandable banners?

They are banners that expand when you rollover them to show more advertising content or videos. You've probably seen them on sites like Techcrunch or Yahoo.

Why make expandable banners?

Because its hard to get the attention of users these days, and adding rich media like videos, games, slideshows or forms to a regular banner ad is difficult. How can you insert a video player with contols into a 468 X 60 or 728 X 90 Banner?
You can't unless the banner can expand to create more room.

Why are expandable banners not commonplace?

Because until now creating expandable banners was not easy.
They could only be made by designers working for large companies who invest a lot of time and money with their ad campaigns.

The reason is because these companies were limited to working with only a few ad serving companies like DART, EyeBlaster and more capable of deploying expandable banners. Not Anymore. With our media kit, we give EVERYONE from individuals to small, medium, and large companies the capability to create, test, deploy and track their own expandable banners without limitations.

How much is your time worth?

Even for professional developers this can take DAYS or even WEEKS to create. This took our developer over month to put everything together, its more complex than you might realize. But you can be up and running in minutes.

Who is this for?

Our media kit is perfect for any web or graphic designer who wants to take banner designs to the next level. It's also perfect for a large company websitse that want to integrate expandable banners as part of their campaign. Only a basic level of HTML, graphic design and optionally flash is required.

With the expandable banner media kit

You don't need a big serving company to serve the banners, you can host all files on your website.
You can customize the dimensions to anything you want. (728 X 90 expand to 728 X 500) (125 X 125 expand to 300 X 300) (120 X 600 expand to 400 X 600)
You can customize how it opens (Rollover, Rolloff, or, click to close)
You can customize the direction it opens (Left, Right, Center, Up, Down)
They use a combination of HTML, Flash and Javascript. You can use any version of actionscript in your flash.
Compatible with IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera for both PC & Mac, & Mobile devices.
Supports browser resizing.
These banners overlap content, not to be confused with pushing content down. (Interested in Push Down Banners? Check out our new website www.pushdownbanners.com )
You will need to create 2 different banners, one in the original size and another in the larger expanded format.
There is no limit to how many banners your can author and publish.
Easily add a ‘clickTAG’ to the expanded version banner to track its click-through progress using third party A Media Kit.
(You must have access to change the HTML of the page the banner will appear on)
The tutorial is commented and very easy to understand.
Will be useful for many future generations of web browsers. If there is a future problem we will fix it.

How they work.

When you rollover or click the banner whichever you choose, a new DHTML layer appears with the new expanded banner showing. When you Rolloff or click a close button, the DHTML layer disappears and reveals the original banner. You may also set a timer (in the flash file) allowing for a smooth closing transition.

Examples

Horizontal examples Image to Image Image to Flash Flash to Flash	Vertical examples Image to Image Image to Flash Flash to Flash
Square examples Image to Image Image to Flash Flash to Flash	Close button example Corner Peel Banners Full Page Takeover Banners

All you need to do is change 3 things:

1. Change the location of your banner files.

2. Your banners dimensions.

3. The direction it will expand to. (up, down, left, right, center)