To help you get started creating your own banners, I have found 3 free automatic Internet banner creation programs and have put together these 10 killer banner design techniques. If you want to take the easiest route to design a banner, you can use one of these three free sites:
To design my own banners, I use Paint Shop Pro which has a free fully working demo available for download at http://www.jasc.com. It is probably the easiest to use graphics software available online today. It even comes with a full animation shop program that makes animating banners easy.
Just having the right software doesn't mean that you will create a good banner though. To give you some ideas on your banner design, try putting these 10 banner design techniques to the test.
