Banner hell
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- pixellette
How do you not go crazy after coming up with millions of banners and lose your drive to do design well?
- ideaist0
Don't do banners in the first place; never compromise what you want to be doing for what you think you have to do pixellette...
- JSK0
Banner = ultimate design challenge
- Maaku0
Go back to the 1999 style.
They will surely enjoy your first ideas.
- scarabin0
find a new job?
- fyoucher10
Get your agencies to hire me :) That's all I do.
- animatedgif0
hire a junior and get him to do it
- cannonball19780
Quit your job. You will be on banners forever until you quit. Quit now before you become that guy and your whole portfolio is covered in them. Who wants to look at a portfolio of banner ads? I know I don't.
- I'm that guy.fyoucher1
- You'd probably be surprised if I said that banners pay more than websites. Way more.fyoucher1
- You are correct. Banner campaigns get some serious budget.acrossthesea
- If you are in this business to make tons of money you took a wrong turn somewhere.DrBombay
- Sounds like you made a wrong turn somewhere :)fyoucher1
- sounds liek youre trying to design websites at ad agenciescannonball1978
- Well if your clients are direct Fortune 500's, that's a different story.fyoucher1
- canuck0
I hate working on them. Especially doing gif banners. I fee your pain.
- CALLES0
millions!?!?!
- flashbender0
I buy cool shit with all the money I am given to make them.
- Frosty_spl0
I work for an agency creating a lot of banners. I want to do the same thing freelance, I would make a ton!
- dconstrukt0
banners are easy.... man i make tons of them.... i do them 'ghetto' looking cuz they work best online
- sherm0
Depending on the ad campaigns etc banners, and takeovers and skins and pushdowns etc pull in serious change. I'd go freelance and win the business rather than being a cog in someone else's process...
- Horp0
Prostitution and international drug muling also pay insane amounts of money.
- Projectile0
I dunno I kinda enjoy designing an mpu sometimes, given that there's budget. You get to make a nice animation, play with some text effects, deal with the weird bugginesses that it throws at you and make it work. (yeah then you have to bastardise it for the leaderboard and completely assfuck it for the skyscraper, but at least you've had yr fun)
certainly beats the crap out of trying to figure out why the 2 lines of very simple code you popped into a page have completely broken it... or trying to format t's and c's