Old comments from Web Buttons:
These images should be used by anyone who wants one. If you choose to say you are a "top 5 percent" site, and you aren't, it will probably be obvious. The web is free, and so are you.
I'd like to think I don't have any criteria for a banner getting onto this page, but of course I do have a few fuzzy ideas about when an image qualifies.
- The graphic should appear on some page other than what it represents or where it originated. This is excepted for especially great buttons. Actually, I'm getting more desperate, so I'm taking buttons from just about anywhere now.
- The graphics are not being objectively used as advertising. Their inclusion on other pages hasn't been bought.
- If an image gets too big (pixel dimensions), it ceases to be a banner/button, and becomes an ad graphic. I don't have a numerical size limit, but the New Jersey CyberMall is probably as big as anything will get.
The HTML on this page is intentionally simple. Background colors or patterns would shift the balance of the page away from the images, and I don't want that to happen.
As often as possible I've tried to link to the page the image represents. However, I find these banners while browsing and sometimes a picture appears unlinked. If anyone knows of a link that should be here, or if you are the creator of an image or know the creator, please let me know.
If you are having trouble seeing the images, try increasing your browsers memory. I don't know why several megabytes of application RAM isn't enough to display a few hundred k of images, but too often it isn't enough--which is pathetic.
(11/8/96)