Banners module
This module is designed for banner management at a website. Banner module is designated for publishing your banners. Using this module you can run various ad campaigns, inform your visitors about sales etc. You can upload various types of the banners, i.e. graphics, text, graphics with text, HTML banners. You can create as many banners at your site as it's necessary.
Supported banners format:
Warning! All input data are related to a current language version of a web site (for multilingual web sites)
1. Add banners category
Here you should create banners categories. All banners are grouped by categories. There can't be a banner without any parent category.
When you create a category please fill in the following fields
ID - ID number of a category. ID number consists of digits only
Name - category name for a group of banners.
Description - short text for a category's description. This is for your convenience only. You may leave it blank.
Priority (000-999) - priority of displaying categories in the administrative panel.
Active - Yes/No. If a banner category is not active banners from the category are not displayed at the site.
How to display banners - The way of displaying banners: Sequentially or Randomly
2. Banners categories
Displays the list of existing banners categories. You can edit any category by pressing on Edit.
3. Add banner
Here you can upload or create new banners. To create a new banner fill in the following fields:
Banner file - Select the banner file from your local drive in one of the supported formats (gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, swf)
Banners text (if html or text banner) - input plain or HTML text if your banner is text or HTML.
You can make a text signature for a graphical banner which afterwards can be displayed by a CMS tag. The signature will be displayed by the banner. If you have a graphic banner you may leave this field blank.
Category - Select a category where the banner will be displayed.
Description - short description of the banner for administrator need only. You may leave this field blank.
URL - URL of the page where browser is redirected when a user clicks over the banner
Important! Clicks are registered for all banner types automatically. Flash banners (swf) have special additional requirements. To register clicks for Flash banners you should change the source file, the line for URL redirection and insert the code written below. Don't insert anything else there.
on (release) {
getURL(banner_url,"_blank");
}
For a Flash banner input to the field [URL] an URL of the page where browser is redirected to.
Width - banner width in px.
Height - banner height in px.
Alt - alt text for a banner.
Active - Yes/No. If a banner is inactive it's not displayed at the site.
4. Banners
Here the list of all banners classified within the created categories is displayed . When you select a category at the right dropdown menu [Category] only the banners from this category will be displayed. While clicking over a banner title you can view it in a new window.