Creating Banner and Other Types of Ads in SVG

You quite likely will have heard that concern is being expressed in certain quarters about the perceived falling effectiveness of banner ads on Web pages. Yet, if you visit almost any commercial Web site, you find a huge variety of ads on many Web pages. To complete this chapter, look at some possible uses of SVG in creating these types of ads.

One key aspect of any banner or other type of ad is the facility to click through to another Web site. Information about the SVG <a> element, which controls this type of between-page navigation, is in Chapter 5, “Creating Navigation Bars.”

The examples in this section illustrate the use of many of the SVG elements and attributes that were touched on in earlier ...

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