Bannerfans is a free online tool that let you create professional banners free, and use them on your site or for advertising purposes.

What’s great about BannerFans is that it’s fully functional web-based software that let you design unlimitted banners in any size, color and effects you would like. No software download is required; you will be designing online from the scratch until the end.

After you design your banner, you can save it on your hard drive in JPEG, PNG or GIF format, and you even can upload your own background image instead of using sold colors.

There are only simple 5 steps to create a banner:

1. Choose the size of your banner
2. Type the text and choose the font.
3. Choose the shadow and effects
4. Choose the border
5. Then the output format your prefer

Remember that you have to sign up for a free account before you download the banner.