Free Banner Creators for Your Advertising Campaigns
Banner advertising is considered as one of the most effective ways of promoting your website or products online. One of the most important steps in banner advertising is creating an attractive banner. However, most of the time you need a costly software or pay for someone to create one. Not everybody can afford to purchase these softwares or know how to use them. Good thing there are free banner generators that can help you in creating banners and launching your ad campaigns.
Create graphical banners (this can also be used for your website headers and banners).
Banner Sketch offers a high-quality professional online banner creator. They have pre-build templates you can use. However, they only offer banner (468×60) and half banner (234×60) sizes.
Banner Break lets you create a professional-quality graphical banner.
My Banner Maker is an easy to use banner maker. You can choose any ad format that will suit your ad campaign. All banners are instantly hosted by ImageShack.
Flash and animated banners can undoubtedly catch an attention and increase CTR.
AdDesigner offers professional-quality, animated banner ad creation quickly and easily. Use the high-quality banner ads you design at AdDesigner.com to get higher click-through rates (which means more traffic to your website), to build a professional image for your website, and to create a favorable and lasting impression on everyone who sees your banner ads.
Ping A Friend lets you create a “dancing” text. You can choose several effects for you banner.
Web 2.0 banners and logos are becoming a trend in banner advertising. Here are some of the great web 2.0 banner generators:
Web 2.0 Logo Creator is meant to be a parody of Web 2.0 Logos. Create your own Flickr-like logo in seconds!
Creatr lets you create a web 2.0 logo similar to Google’s, Yahoo!’s, and Flickr’s.
Other logo generators: SimWebSol Logo Generator and Flickr Logo Maker.

Hello, in this post you presenting nice programs for banner making. But try GICKR – you can add it to your list. i use it, and I am very satisfied. I write review about this on line tool. You can read it here:
http://ukion.blogspot.com/2008/03/gickr-make-animated-gifs-and-banners.html
A great resource for do it yourself-ers and those on a tight budget.
Great choices, I’d recommend one more – BannerMakerPro. I’ve used it when in a hurry many times with good results.