Not many people have discovered that you can use multiple background colors on your banners, which is just too bad since that will add some extra life to your banner. The banners you create will also attrack the eyes of the visitors much easier and therefore result in better conversion rates

In this article I will show you how to create banners with multiple background colors that blend into each other.

First visit the banner creator at CreateBanner.com and select the banner size of your choice. Then scroll down to the background color choice and select "gradient color".

That will give you two color selection boxes, one for the upper background color and another one for the lower background color. As default they two colors are gray and white, which is kind of boring.

It's easy to select the background colors to use, just click on the colors you want and the banner will be updated with the background color you clicked on . If you know the HTML code for a color you would like to use just fill in the color code in the boxes under the color tables. That will update the background on your banner to use the color code you selected instead of one of the pre-defined in the color table. This option is great if you already know the color code, or if you want your banner to match your company colors or web site design.

By playing around with the color tables you can create some nice and "interesting" backgrounds for your banners. Just look at the examples I created:

What kind of backgrounds did you create?

Finally it's time for what all the Google users been waiting several years on: Google has announced that they will remove the beta status from Gmail and maybe some other services.

The beta stauts means that their services are not completely tested and some bugs may still be there. The usual with something in beta testing is that it's only going to be like that for a few weeks, at most a couple of months. The thing with Google is that their services has been in beta for several years , but now they're going to change it.

So why will they change away from beta if their services has been like that for several years? The thing is called business users!

If Google want companies to start using Gmail (and their other services) instead of like Outlook, then they have to remove the beta status since companies don't want to use untested software for their live and business critical operations. Gmail in beta status may be perfectly find for private persons and small companies, but not the big once.

Now it's just up to Google to make companies like their services too.

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So don't wait any longer, visit www.casinopeople.com today you too.

A couple of days ago we asked for suggestions for new banner sizes and we got two really good suggestions from our visitors:

We need the 250×250 square and some of the other rectangular banners.

This is a fun website. I have never created a banner ad or anything else resembling website stuff. But I am willing to learn how. However, the banner I need to create is for an ad in a magazine called Invision. It is presently not available on your list of sizes on your website. The ad they have offered me is 180 x730 pixels. It would be great to get one of your free VIP memberships for this and greatly appreciated.

Since we said that if we implemented the suggested banner sizes we would give you some VIP memberships as thanks we've sent both Dave and Raphaelle a coupon each for a one year VIP membership

We didn't only implement the suggested 250×250 and 180×730, but we also implemented the following banner sizes at the same time:

• 250×300 – Big button 1
• 300×250 – Big button 2
• 180×180 – Square 1
• 250×250 – Square 2
• 300×300 – Square 3
• 180×730 – Extra wide skyscraper 1
• 250×730 – Extra wide skyscraper 2
• 300×730 – Extra wide skyscraper 3

As you can see suggestions can pay off sometimes

Try the banner creator for free at www.createbanner.com you too.

We're planning to expand the banner sizes we let you all create so we need you to suggest new sizes.

Is there any special size you're missing or do you think we got them all covered? At the moment we offer the following banner sizes, but is that enough?

• 468×60 – Banner
• 728×90 – Leaderboard
• 120×60 – Small button 1
• 125×60 – Small button 2
• 120×90 – Medium button 1
• 125×90 – Medium button 2
• 125×125 – Medium button 3
• 120×600 – Skyscraper
• 160×600 – Wide skyscraper

Anyone suggesting a banner size we're implementing in the banner creator tool will get a free one year VIP membership as thanks so hurry up and suggest new banner sizes.A one year VIP membership is worth about $35/year.

This could also be a great opportunity for you to tell us what you think about our plan to let our VIP members to select any size they want, i.e. to make up their own sizes directly from the banner creator. Is that a good idea?

Also what do you think will add value to the VIP membership? What would make you pay for a membership? Anyone suggesting a feature we implement will get a lifetime VIP membership, a value of about $1750 (calculated on 50 years life expectancy multiplied by $35 so if you live longer it's worth even more).