This weeks review of good and bad banners was quite challenging. First, finding a site that used flash banners aren’t the easiest to find. But once you looked around, finding good ones could be seen in any of the major goods and service providers. The most interesting of these was the SKITTLES website (www.skittles.com) where you are met with not really a website but just a a index/header box asking for your age. Looking into this, you are taken to what seems like a youtube profile page for skittles. Further research into the skittles strategy showed that this header/index page could be found in a number of social networking sites such as twitter (twitter.com/skittles) and that was the extent of the page. This shows how skittles is on the forefront of consumer cooperation. Although the success of the strategy is debateable, it is certainly an interesting way to approach the use of banner/header and a website.

A not so effective banner was the Yamaha site (http://www.global.yamaha.com/index.html). I chose this only because the picture of the piano on the site seemed out of focus and I believe it should atleast be focused. Other than that, it is a simple but effective menu option, and i’m not even sure it counts as a banner other than that, it is the first graphic material on the page.