One of the first things to do when thinking of creating a new banner design is to decide on whether or not you want to use flash to animate it; if so then you will either need to enlist the services of one of the professionals you carry out this work or purchase a banner making software program. Either way some great results can be had, with some of the best banner designs going on to make some very large affiliate commissions, month in month out. If however you decide that you want to stick to a more basic banner design, then you can probably produce it via a program like word or paint, it will be a question of playing around with the design until you find something that you are happy with; at this stage your banner design can be uploaded to one of the websites that will transform it into an actual banner, then it can be installed onto your blog or website.