My first steps...

Okay, I had someone on the forums "pretend" like they were a client and tell me what type of banner to make them so I could get better at advertising banners. This is a design I thought up on my own, so I didn't try to copy the layout of anything I saw. What do you guys think of my first real professional banner?

Good and bad comments are accepted! Only the bad ones make a person better!

What do you guys think? Good or bad?

It's quite good, but the dots on the side are confusing! lol

Yeah, I know. I was thinking about changing the animation and making the click here blink or something.

Like i said on aim....the fonts are very standard, the animation is confuesing and not relevent....e.g it does not attract my attention to the banner but simply puts me off! The colours are very "plain", consider gradients, textures....perhaps an image of a person? Overall for your first banner it is a very solid attempt. Keep it up.

I appreciate the honest opinions from everyone. It's really helping me out.

umm..I'm way new here and don't know too much. But it's pretty awesome imho. the dots are a little..ehh =/ I dunno. but the banner is rad.
-Meighan

Try using more than just two colors. And like robson said, use gradients, textures, etc. to help make it look more appealing.