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Banner Design Guidelines

If you wish for onlysimchas to design your advertising banner, please contact Business Development | E-Mail Marketing Guidelines.

We accept banners in GIF, JPEG, or FLASH formats. However, we require that all banners meet the minimum requirements below:

If you have any further questions about your ad banner, please contact your Advertising sales consultant.

New GIF/JPEG Banners

1. Banner file size is limited to no more than 50 KB.
2. We recommend that you downsize/compress your pallette to as few colors as needed to optimize banner file sizes.
3. Do not assume any background color will be present (do not enable transparency in your banners), as this is subject to change.
4. Unless otherwise specified by our tech team, or your sales consultant, the banner's dimensions must EXACTLY meet the specific sizes provided to you.
5. If using GIF animation, we request that the color/animation/contrast is not too disturbing to the visitor's eyes. (Example of what not to do is the popular "If this is flashing, you won!" spam banner which is pervasive on internet sites).

New FLASH Banners

1. File size must be no larger than 50 KB.
2. Any sound must be approved by us prior to launch.
3. File must be rendered to target Flash 4.0 or lower. (Otherwise users without Flash > 4 will be prompted to install Flash every time a banner loads, which is unacceptable).
4. If you wish for click-throughs to be tracked by our banner server, please be in touch with us, so the link you embed into banner properly references our click-through tracker, as opposed to directly referencing the final destination URL.
5. Do not assume any background color will always be displayed behind the banner. You should not make the banner transparent.