diff --git a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/images/banner.gif b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/images/banner.gif
deleted file mode 100644
index bdd47b7c..00000000
Binary files a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/images/banner.gif and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/images/banner.png b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/images/banner.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af68c505
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/images/banner.png differ
diff --git a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chat.tpl b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chat.tpl
index 03dfb952..21ba45ae 100644
--- a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chat.tpl
+++ b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chat.tpl
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ var threadParams = { servl:"${webimroot}/thread.php",wroot:"${webimroot}",freque
 	<table width="100%" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
 	<tr>
     <td></td>
-    <td colspan="2" height="100" background="${tplroot}/images/banner.gif" valign="top" class="bgrn">
+    <td colspan="2" height="100" background="${tplroot}/images/banner.png" valign="top" class="bgrn">
 		<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
 		<tr>
 	    <td width="50%" valign="top">
diff --git a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chatsimple.tpl b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chatsimple.tpl
index 4327b114..ae1a349b 100644
--- a/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chatsimple.tpl
+++ b/src/messenger/webim/styles/original/templates/chatsimple.tpl
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
 	<tr>
     <td></td>
-    <td colspan="2" height="100" background="${tplroot}/images/banner.gif" valign="top" class="bgrn">
+    <td colspan="2" height="100" background="${tplroot}/images/banner.png" valign="top" class="bgrn">
 		<table width="590" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
 		<tr>
 	    <td width="135" valign="top">