All it meant was, visit my site, please. I made about a dozen banners in one day. Others banners were less successful. I have to wonder who that one person was. They have their place.
Banners work satisfactorily for broad consumer categories like cars, discount airfares and CDs.
Honorable businesses will avoid banners because of their indiscriminate approach, and their association with porn. Smart marketers are experimenting with Java scripts, pop-up windows, and push methodologies that target individual user needs, and give them greater control and precision. Trying to stop web traffic with a banner is like trying to stop actual traffic by standing in the street and waving your arms. If you're the driver, you'll be too annoyed to stop.