diff --git a/app/lib/frontend/templates/layout.dart b/app/lib/frontend/templates/layout.dart
index 61a5e6eab1..c2a68ec68f 100644
--- a/app/lib/frontend/templates/layout.dart
+++ b/app/lib/frontend/templates/layout.dart
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ String renderLayoutPage(
     if (type == PageType.standalone) 'page-standalone',
     if (type == PageType.landing) 'page-landing',
   ];
-  final announcementBannerHtml = announcementBackend.getAnnouncementHtml();
+  //final announcementBannerHtml = announcementBackend.getAnnouncementHtml();
+  final announcementBannerHtml =
+      '<b>EXAMPLE BANNER -- EXAMPLE BANNER -- EXAMPLE BANNER -- EXAMPLE BANNER!!!!!!!!</b>';
   final session = requestContext.sessionData;
   final moderationSubject = () {
     if (pageData == null) {
diff --git a/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/shared/layout.dart b/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/shared/layout.dart
index de1cc2239c..9d8e8a5a2e 100644
--- a/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/shared/layout.dart
+++ b/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/shared/layout.dart
@@ -195,7 +195,14 @@ d.Node pageLayoutNode({
                 if (announcementBanner != null)
                   d.div(
                     classes: ['announcement-banner'],
-                    child: announcementBanner,
+                    attributes: {
+                      'data-widget': 'dismissible',
+                      'data-dismissible-by': '.dismisser'
+                    },
+                    children: [
+                      announcementBanner,
+                      d.div(classes: ['dismisser'], text: 'x'),
+                    ],
                   ),
               ],
             ),
diff --git a/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/completion/widget.dart b/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/completion/widget.dart
index e60e9892dd..0d460094b0 100644
--- a/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/completion/widget.dart
+++ b/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/completion/widget.dart
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import '../../web_util.dart';
 ///   * `completion-dropdown` for the completion dropdown.
 ///   * `completion-option` for each option in the dropdown, and,
 ///   * `completion-option-select` is applied to selected options.
-void create(Element element, Map<String, String> options) {
+void create(HTMLElement element, Map<String, String> options) {
   if (!element.isA<HTMLInputElement>()) {
     throw UnsupportedError('Must be <input> element');
   }
diff --git a/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/dismissible/widget.dart b/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/dismissible/widget.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9bbbd8c146
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/dismissible/widget.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2024, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'dart:js_interop';
+
+import 'package:collection/collection.dart';
+import 'package:web/web.dart';
+
+import '../../web_util.dart';
+
+/// Forget dismissed messages that are more than 2 years old
+late final _deadline = DateTime.now().subtract(Duration(days: 365 * 2));
+
+/// Don't save more than 50 entries
+const _maxMissedMessages = 50;
+
+/// Create a dismissible widget on [element].
+///
+/// A `data-dismissible-by` is required, this must be a CSS selected for a
+/// child element that when clicked will dismiss the message by removing
+/// [element].
+///
+/// A hash is computed from `innerText` of [element], once dismissed this hash
+/// will be stored in `localStorage`. And next time this widget is instantiated
+/// with the same `innerText` it'll be removed immediately.
+///
+/// Hashes of dismissed messages will be stored for up to 2 years.
+/// No more than 50 dismissed messages are retained in `localStorage`.
+void create(HTMLElement element, Map<String, String> options) {
+  final by = options['by'];
+  if (by == null) throw UnsupportedError('data-dismissible-by required');
+
+  late final hash = _cheapNaiveHash(element.innerText);
+  if (_dismissed.any((e) => e.hash == hash)) {
+    element.remove();
+    return;
+  } else {
+    element.style.display = 'revert';
+  }
+
+  final dismiss = (Event e) {
+    e.preventDefault();
+
+    element.remove();
+    _dismissed.add((
+      hash: hash,
+      date: DateTime.now(),
+    ));
+    _saveDismissed();
+  };
+
+  var dismissible = false;
+  for (final dismisser in element.querySelectorAll(by).toList()) {
+    if (!dismisser.isA<HTMLElement>()) continue;
+    dismisser.addEventListener('click', dismiss.toJS);
+    dismissible = true;
+  }
+  if (!dismissible) {
+    throw UnsupportedError(
+      'data-dismissible-by must point to a child element',
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// Create a cheap naive hash from [text].
+String _cheapNaiveHash(String text) {
+  final half = (text.length / 2).floor();
+  return text.length.toRadixString(16).padLeft(2, '0') +
+      text.hashCode.toRadixString(16).padLeft(2, '0') +
+      text.substring(0, half).hashCode.toRadixString(16).padLeft(2, '0') +
+      text.substring(half).hashCode.toRadixString(16).padLeft(2, '0');
+}
+
+/// LocalStorage key where we store the hashes of messages that have been
+/// dismissed.
+///
+/// Data is stored on the format: `<hash>@<date>;<hash>@<date>;...`
+const _dismissedMessageslocalStorageKey = 'dismissed-messages';
+
+late final _dismissed = [
+  ...?window.localStorage
+      .getItem(_dismissedMessageslocalStorageKey)
+      ?.split(';')
+      .where((e) => e.contains('@'))
+      .map((entry) {
+    final [hash, date, ...] = entry.split('@');
+    return (
+      hash: hash,
+      date: DateTime.tryParse(date) ?? DateTime.fromMicrosecondsSinceEpoch(0),
+    );
+  }).where((entry) => entry.date.isAfter(_deadline)),
+];
+
+void _saveDismissed() {
+  window.localStorage.setItem(
+    _dismissedMessageslocalStorageKey,
+    _dismissed
+        .sortedBy((e) => e.date) // Sort by date
+        .reversed // Reverse ordering to prefer newest dates
+        .take(_maxMissedMessages) // Limit how many entries we save
+        .map((e) => e.hash + '@' + e.date.toIso8601String().split('T').first)
+        .join(';'),
+  );
+}
diff --git a/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/widget.dart b/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/widget.dart
index 46c877fd08..a01d558ca0 100644
--- a/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/widget.dart
+++ b/pkg/web_app/lib/src/widget/widget.dart
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import 'package:web/web.dart';
 
 import '../web_util.dart';
 import 'completion/widget.dart' deferred as completion;
+import 'dismissible/widget.dart' deferred as dismissible;
 
 /// Function to create an instance of the widget given an element and options.
 ///
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ import 'completion/widget.dart' deferred as completion;
 /// `data-widget="completion"`. And option `src` is specified with:
 /// `data-completion-src="$value"`.
 typedef _WidgetFn = FutureOr<void> Function(
-  Element element,
+  HTMLElement element,
   Map<String, String> options,
 );
 
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ typedef _WidgetLoaderFn = FutureOr<_WidgetFn> Function();
 /// Map from widget name to widget loader
 final _widgets = <String, _WidgetLoaderFn>{
   'completion': () => completion.loadLibrary().then((_) => completion.create),
+  'dismissible': () =>
+      dismissible.loadLibrary().then((_) => dismissible.create),
 };
 
 Future<_WidgetFn> _noSuchWidget() async =>
diff --git a/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_base.scss b/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_base.scss
index a34400f10c..7bb3d46fe3 100644
--- a/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_base.scss
+++ b/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_base.scss
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ body {
   overflow-wrap: anywhere;
 }
 
-body, input, button, select {
+body,
+input,
+button,
+select {
   font-family: var(--pub-default-text-font_family);
   -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
   // we don't use font ligatures, and Google Sans fonts would otherwise change text in surprising ways
@@ -41,17 +44,39 @@ body,
   font-weight: 400;
   font-size: 16px;
 
-  h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
+  h1,
+  h2,
+  h3,
+  h4,
+  h5,
+  h6 {
     font-family: var(--pub-default-text-font_family);
     font-weight: 400;
   }
 
-  h1 { font-size: 36px; }
-  h2 { font-size: 24px; }
-  h3 { font-size: 18px; }
-  h4 { font-size: 18px; }
-  h5 { font-size: 16px; }
-  h6 { font-size: 16px; }
+  h1 {
+    font-size: 36px;
+  }
+
+  h2 {
+    font-size: 24px;
+  }
+
+  h3 {
+    font-size: 18px;
+  }
+
+  h4 {
+    font-size: 18px;
+  }
+
+  h5 {
+    font-size: 16px;
+  }
+
+  h6 {
+    font-size: 16px;
+  }
 }
 
 img {
@@ -134,6 +159,7 @@ main {
   .standalone-side-image-block {
     display: block;
   }
+
   .standalone-wrapper.-has-side-image {
     .standalone-content {
       margin: 0px;
@@ -167,7 +193,7 @@ pre {
   padding: 30px;
   overflow-x: auto;
 
-  > code {
+  >code {
     padding: 0px !important;
     border-radius: 0;
     display: inline-block;
@@ -232,29 +258,37 @@ pre {
 
 .markdown-body {
   p {
-    margin-top: 8px; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
-    margin-bottom: 12px; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+    margin-top: 8px;
+    /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+    margin-bottom: 12px;
+    /* overrides github-markdown.css */
   }
 
   table {
 
-    td, th {
-      padding: 12px 12px 12px 0; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
-      border: none; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+    td,
+    th {
+      padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
+      /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+      border: none;
+      /* overrides github-markdown.css */
     }
 
     tr {
-      border-top: none; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+      border-top: none;
+      /* overrides github-markdown.css */
 
       &:nth-child(2n) {
-        background-color: inherit; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+        background-color: inherit;
+        /* overrides github-markdown.css */
       }
     }
 
     th {
       font-family: var(--pub-default-text-font_family);
       font-size: 16px;
-      font-weight: 400; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+      font-weight: 400;
+      /* overrides github-markdown.css */
       border-bottom: 1px solid #c8c8ca;
       text-align: left;
     }
@@ -264,7 +298,8 @@ pre {
     }
 
     img {
-      background-color: inherit; /* overrides github-markdown.css */
+      background-color: inherit;
+      /* overrides github-markdown.css */
     }
   }
 }
@@ -355,8 +390,13 @@ pre {
 }
 
 @keyframes spin {
-  0% { transform: rotate(0deg); }
-  100% { transform: rotate(360deg); }
+  0% {
+    transform: rotate(0deg);
+  }
+
+  100% {
+    transform: rotate(360deg);
+  }
 }
 
 .hash-link {
@@ -384,12 +424,37 @@ pre {
 }
 
 .announcement-banner {
+  display: none;
+
   padding: 10px 0;
 
   background: var(--pub-home_announcement-background-color);
   font-size: 16px;
 
   text-align: center;
+
+  .dismisser {
+    float: right;
+    padding: 5px 15px;
+    margin-top: -5px;
+    cursor: pointer;
+    user-select: none;
+  }
+
+  z-index: 0;
+  animation-duration: 200ms;
+  animation-name: slide-down;
+  animation-timing-function: ease;
+}
+
+@keyframes slide-down {
+  from {
+    translate: 0 -100%;
+  }
+
+  to {
+    translate: 0 0;
+  }
 }
 
 a.-x-ago {
diff --git a/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_site_header.scss b/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_site_header.scss
index 0d7b2ad4a4..245066b409 100644
--- a/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_site_header.scss
+++ b/pkg/web_css/lib/src/_site_header.scss
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 }
 
 .site-header {
+  z-index: 100; // for animation of announcement
   background: var(--pub-site_header_banner-background-color);
   color: var(--pub-site_header_banner-text-color);
   display: flex;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@
 
   @media (max-width: $device-mobile-max-width) {
     &:focus-within {
+
       .hamburger,
       .site-logo {
         opacity: 0.3;
@@ -223,6 +225,7 @@
   }
 
   .site-header-nav {
+
     /* Navigation styles for mobile. */
     @media (max-width: $device-mobile-max-width) {
       position: fixed;
@@ -354,7 +357,7 @@
           padding: 12px;
           min-width: 100px;
 
-          > h3 {
+          >h3 {
             border-bottom: 1px solid var(--pub-site_header_popup-border-color);
           }
         }