dooganized

This will be useful for a few people, so am making it available to download here.

The template is in Photoshop format (.PSD) and is for partner channels with 875px by 150px banners:

http://dougdoug.co.uk.googlepages.com/NewTemplateLayout.psd

The width is 1600px, sufficient for most monitors (22" widescreens are normally of this resolution)
I don't suggest using the full length of the template as it will produce a large jpg file that may take a while to load. Make your design and then crop the length to whatever is necessary.

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Also, if you prefer to have your design all in the background, then set this transparent gif as your banner:

http://dougdoug.co.uk.googlepages.com/TransparentBanner.gif

This method might make it trickier to setup different clickable areas of the banner, but it means you have more freedom in your banner & background flowing together/overlapping each other - like this:


To setup the image map when your banner is actually in the background:
Screen shot your new youtube page, paste it into my template PSD & align it with the other layers in there. You can then use the 'Actual Banner Area' layer to cut out the area of your background that will be clickable, then use that cut out image to upload to an Image Map creator website, like this one: http://www.image-maps.com

Hope that helps.. and makes sense!