How To Use Your New AdSense Backgrounds
Step 1: Choose a location on your page to put your new and improved AdSense ad. You will want this to be a place that is looked at frequently by your visitors. It is best to have at least one AdSense block above the fold of your page.
Step 2: Select the background you would like to use and the correct size for the ad you want. IE. if you want to use a leaderboard ad you would select out of the 728x90 folder.
Step 3: Upload the background to your web sites server. It is best to put all of your adsense backgrounds in a centralized directory. It is best to keep the backgrounds in their folders since come may have the same name and they will be more easily located.
Step 4: Copy the following code to the location on your web site where you want your ad to be displayed.
<table width="PIC Width" height="PIC Height" border="0" background="Pic Location">
<tr>
<td><center>
REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR ADSENSE CODE
</center></td>
</tr>
</table>
Step 5: Customize your code. Replace PIC Width and PIC Height with the pictures width and height. Please refer to the chart below to make this easier.
Ad Size Background Width Background Height
120x240 width="170" height="290"
120x600 width="170" height="650"
125x125 width="175" height="175"
160x600 width="210" height="650"
180x150 width="230" height="200"
200x200 width="250" height="250"
234x60 width="284" height="110"
250x250 width="300" height="300"
300x250 width="350" height="300"
336x280 width="386" height="330"
468x60 width="518" height="110"
728x90 width="778" height="140"
Now replace the part labeled Pic Location with the location of your AdSense background. This may be something like /bluediff.gif if the background is in your local directory, if not you will have to put in the complete path IE.
http://www.mysite.com/adsensebackgrounds/bluediff.gif.
Step 6: The final thing you need to do is put in your AdSense ad and upload your page. Simply go to your AdSense like you normally would to make an ad. Simply choose the correct ad format and edit your colors accordingly. Use the color chart below to make this quick and simple.
AdSense Background Color HEX Code To Use For Border and Background
Blue 0000FF
Red FF0000
Green 00FF00
Yellow FFFF00
Purple FF00FF
Orange FFC000
Choosing your text is another very important setting when making your AdSense ad. It is best to set the background and border color. Then you can see what your ad will look like and how the text stands out.
With the darker color background (blue, red) white will stand out pretty good. With some of the lighter color backgrounds (green, yellow, ect.) black or blue text stands out good. To achieve the best results simply mess around until you find a combination that you like.