The Gothic Banner Exchange is intended to be used to help promote Gothic, horror, and literary sites. To celebrate the launch, for a limited time, the following types of sites will receive free bonus exposures because they are what we wish to support most:

Author sites and small press publisher sites joining now will receive double bonus exposures. This means that Gothic and horror authors and publishers will receive two banner impressions for every single impression shown on their sites. Dark art sites and dark fashion designers joining now will receive 1,000 bonus exposures and an even ratio.

Sites intended for mature audiences are welcome to joing the Gothic BanEx, provided they are thematically appropriate for a Gothic or horror audience, but banners may not show any nudity or extreme violence. No nipples, no butt crack, no genitals, no extreme fetish, no four letter words, no explicit splatter gore, if you have to ask, it probably may not be on there. If you have an affiliate program, you need to invite Gothic.net to join it and use referral code in the exchange and you may receive bonus exposures.

Please also do not submit sites which engage in image theft or other intellectual property abuses. If someone else created it, then you need his or her permission to use it on your site.

Please don't cheat on the BanEx. Banner code may not be modified without specific written permission. Email if you have a question. Banner code may not be placed on autorefresh pages. Banner code may not be placed on pages where the viewer can't click on them. Banner code may not be placed on iframes which require the viewer to scroll to see the banners. Banner code may appear no more than twice on any given page.

Members acknowledge that the Gothic Banner Exchange is a free service. It is provided as is and can be revoked at any time if in Gothic.net admin's sole estimation it should be. Although Gothic.net admin will attempt to respond to complaints, Gothic.net is not responsible for content on member sites.

Standard banners must be 468 pixels wide x 60 pixels tall and less than 30k. Your banner must be a JPEG or a GIF. It may not be a Bitmap or a tricky cgi call or an executable or anything other than a JPG or GIF image. If you are wondering whether your banner is the right size, just compare it to a banner already in the exchange and make sure the size is identical.

Banners must be stored on your web server i.e. you will provide a link to your banner's location on your server during the signup process. Your server must allow bandwidth pulls. This means that the server your banner is located on must permit your banner to be displayed on other servers while residing on that one. If your server does not permit this, the banner might look fine on your site but come up broken or wrong on other sites in the exchange. You need to know the specifics of your own host, but among the hosts which do not allow either any bandwidth pull or sufficient bandwidth pull at this time are Angelfire, Bravenet,, ClubPhoto, Darksites, DeviantArt, Freewebz, Geocities, PhotoBucket, Snapfish, Tripod, Yahoo, etc.

Thanks for joining the exchange and feel free to contact us with any questions. with any questions.