Reply #5: Every site wants traffic

[Cogito ergo doleo]

The top of the page is the best real estate there is, and if you did something like a "petition of the week or month," a feature like that could drive traffic to a site. If the site placed a banner up at the top of the page for you, they could place it in an inline frame so it wouldn't bog down loading time (you could even host the page - more on that below). You could post a reminder on DU every week to remember to sign the petition of the week, to help.

Another idea- if you were able to work that out, then when someone clicked the banner they'd end up on a page with links to the different petitions, with your header up at the top so they know they are in the right place. You could have a short summary of the nature of the petitions, then the links.

Banners are typically a difficult size to work with, but you can have an animated graphic if you can't get everything in the space alotted. Also, using an inline frame, you could have text below the graphic, so you could have fresh content every week without having to create a new banner. If you knew the webmaster, you could have the banner page on your server that the webmaster directed into the inline frame. That way you could update it without the webmaster having to.

Hope this helps.