Can anyone recommend any bannermaking software? I've been googling around but just downloaded a lot of time wasting cr@p and 'crippled' software :roll:

Hopefully free (of course) :)

Serif Pageplus has a pretty good banner making feature. You can usually get an older free version from the Serif website.

Serif Pageplus has a pretty good banner making feature. You can usually get an older free version from the Serif website.

Thanks for that alchresearch - I'll have a look tomorrow :thumbsup:

http://www.kudlian.net/products/banner/

Ended up playing with this (Ok, so it's not flash and it's not animated) but it has a nicely laid out easy to use interface, not crowded with annoying ads or pop ups, and offers genuine advice.
http://www.bannercreator.nu/banner-maker.html

And if you want to animate the results here's the worlds smallest, simplest drag and drop gif animator
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

Like I said before, it's not flash but it's not bad :)