Web Ribbons are an excellent way to add visual "edge" to your web site. They convey a strong message, draw the eye to their presence, and give an easy way to offer alerts or guides for your visitors.
Essentially, Web Ribbons are unique banners, positioned strategically in a diagonal position, usually in the right upper corner of a website. They rather resemble the pretty ribbons you see on the corners of a fine box of chocolates or perfume. They may look difficult to arrange, but using a simple java script, they can take mere minutes to code and set up on your site.
Web Site Ribbon Generator
This is especially true if you use the script and generator developed by Stanley Lyndon of Web Site Ribbon at websiteribbon.com In Stanley's own words, "If you like a site or want to support a cause online, there is no better way to do it than add a ribbon in your website or blog, linking to that page. Alternatively, if you just want to give your site a cool look or group all your sites with a single ribbon, you may just add the ribbon without making it clickable."
Click here to view a white on white ribbon. You can choose a minimalistic or vivid colorful approach to your own site's ribbon.
The Web Ribbon Generator is very easy to use and only requires five simple steps.
- Type in the text you wish to display on your ribbon (keep this short).
- Type in the hyperlink that you would like your ribbon to click through to (or you can skip this step if you simply want the ribbon for show, not linking).
- Choose the font you want to use for the appearance of your text.
- Choose your font (text) color.
- Choose the background of the ribbon from the 20 possible backgrounds.
Once these steps are done, you will see a message that your ribbon is being processed - then you can copy the code provided by the generator and paste it into your site's HTML source code. It's as simple as that!
Quick Ribbon Generator
Quick Ribbon is another easy to use generator that also produces attractive web ribbons - this one also allows you to customize the color of the ribbon using an easy-to-manipulate palette. This generator is accessible at http://quickribbon.com,
