BannerZest

Although a pretty controversial activity among Internet enthusiasts, banners help keep some websites alive, and might even help you with an idea, or product you’re looking for one day. In case you want to create some for your own website, then BannerZest can help with multiple presets, effects, and publishing options.

The application is sure to grab your attention from the first few seconds of launch, and this is because of the visually appealing interface, with a customizable structure, and high-quality textures used for all its elements.

Get your picture collection ready, because the more picture you include in the project, the more complex, and lengthy the banner becomes. These can easily be added by dragging multiple files, or an entire folder over the main window to get them ready. You can use a dedicated side panel to quickly jump to a custom location.

A random animation starts as soon as the gallery is ready, just to give you an example of what you obtain in the end. Additional picture details can be written down, but if the name is properly formatted, there’s not really a need, to include more info, because file name is also shown.

Moving on to the themes section is where all the fun starts. Most types of animations are nothing more that stylized slideshows, with which you can interact, and this comes in handy if you attach a link to pictures.

Before exporting, you can take a detour through the settings tab. Here, you are able to customize different elements, such as the loading screen border, colors, text box, and animation, menu, text, items, buttons, transitions, or sound.

Preview is always shown in real time, so you don’t have to wait for one to be generated. When saving, the application lets you upload to a custom FTP server to include in your projects, or save locally, the saved file also includes files for HTML, or XML, with corresponding programming code also displayed, for faster, better integration in your browser.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that BannerZest is a powerful application with which you can create cool web banners in the form of picture slideshow. It could have used a few more customization options, but the preset library is already bundled with man effects, which are neatly designed to meet most sophisticated demands.