Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3, All in One

Chapter 15. Creating a Web Banner

In this chapter, you’ll create a web banner that the REACH company can use to help promote itself online. Things that are important to ad banner advertising are a clear message, eye-catching graphics, and a small file size. With Adobe Creative Suite 3, you have all the tools necessary to achieve those goals. You’ll use Illustrator to create a layered file and Flash to animate it.

By the Way

We’re using Illustrator for the graphics in this project, but Photoshop also works nicely for creating web graphics. In fact, we’ll be using Photoshop in the next chapter.

Creating a New Illustrator File

Begin by launching Illustrator and creating a new file. In the New Document dialog box, set a width of 468 pixels and a height ...