If you're looking for a web-based banner creator that doesn't require any professional skills of Photoshop, then Banner Fans is exactly what you need.
Banner Fans is a free of cost web-based service that allows you to create banners and use them for your websites. If offers you to create banners with different backgrounds, fonts, effects, sizes and more. You can save your banner and download it in JPEG, PNG or GIF format.
To create your free banner you will have to go through 5 easy steps that includes, Layout, Text & Fonts, Shadows & Effects, Border and Format. You will even have the option of uploading your own background image for the banner.
1. Choose the size of your banner. Here I've chosen 728x90 Leaderboard
2. Type your text and choose font.
3. Select shadows & effects
4. Choose border style. You will have the option to leave it as blank, solid, dashed, double solid and Double dashed.
5. Save your banner's file format as PNG, JPG and GIF.
It's highly recommended that you use FireFox 3 whehn you're using BannerFans.