Overview
Rotating Banners are used for alternating graphic banner ads on your web site. The "Rotating Banners" script will automatically rotate your banner ads based on your specific preferences.
From the Rotating Banners management console you can adjust the priority that each banner should get, upload and remove banners and change where the user will be redirected to when they click on a banner.
Adding Banners
Steps
- Click on the Add Banners button.
- You can upload up to twelve (12) banners at a time. Select your banners by clicking on the Browse... button.
- If the banners you are uploading have already been uploaded previously, and you want to overwrite the existing banners, click on the Overwrite existing files check box.
- Click on the Upload button.
- A new window will open. You will see the following statement if your images uploaded successfully. If you uploaded more than one image, you will see multiple "Upload Status" statements:
- "Upload Status PATH_TO_YOUR_UPLOADED_IMAGE: upload succeeded."
- Close the window.
- Click on the Back to Main Entropy Banner Screen button.
- The page will tell you how many banners you have uploaded:
- "You currently have NUMBER banner(s) uploaded."
- Add the following tag to the page where you want the banners to appear on:
NOTE: Make sure you save your page with an .shtm or .shtml extension!
Modify Rotation
Steps
- Click on the Modify Rotation button.
- Each of the banners you previously uploaded will be shown on the page. You will have the following options available to you:
- Delete - Click on the Delete button to delete the banner from the rotation.
- Priority - Click on the priority radio button you want to use for the associated banner. Once you have made your selection, click on the Save button. Your choices include:
- High
- Medium
- Low
- Linked to - Enter the url you want the associated banner to be linked to in the text box. Once you have entered the URL you want to use, click on the Save button.