XOOPS Operations Guide
  • Introduction
  • GENERAL PRINCIPLES
    • The XOOPS Core
    • Modules
    • Blocks
    • Users and Groups
    • Content
    • Language Files
    • Themes and Templates
  • The Admin Interface
    • Logging
      • As Site Administrator
      • As Registered User
      • Incorrect Login Procedure
      • Logging Out
    • Control panel home
      • Some preliminaries before we get started in the admin area
        • JavaScript
        • Cache
    • Working with the new Admin GUI (en/book/our Dashboard)
      • Help Functions
    • Avatars
      • Adding avatars
      • Edit and delete Avatars
      • System Avatars
      • Custom Avatars
    • Banners
      • What are they?
      • Current active banners
      • Add new banner
      • Editing banners
      • Finished banners
      • Advertising clients
      • Add new client
    • Blocks
      • Overview
      • Editing/Configuring a block
      • Adding custom blocks
      • Cloning a block
    • Comments
      • Overview
      • Manage comments
    • Groups Overview
      • The different sets of rights
      • Edit members of this group
      • Creating a new group
    • Image Manager
      • Adding image categories
      • Editing and deleting images and categories
      • Adding image files through the control panel
      • Accessing the image manager from the user side
    • Mail Users
    • Maintenance
    • Modules
      • Acquiring a module
        • Module origins
        • Ancillary files
        • Copyrights and GPL notices
      • Uploading the module
        • Preparing the module files for upload to a remote server
        • Using FTP or browser file uploader
        • Upload the module package
        • Setting file/directory permissions
      • Installing the module
      • Setting module visibility and menu order
      • Configuring module settings and options
        • Renaming module
        • Display and position options for the module
      • Setting user access rights for a module
    • Preferences
      • General Settings
      • User Info Settings
      • Meta Tags and Footer
      • Word Censoring Options
      • Search Options
      • Mail Setup
      • Authentication Options
      • System Module Settings
    • Smilies
      • Using smilies
      • Adding and editing smilies
    • Templates
      • The default template set
      • Cloning and downloading template sets
      • Editing templates
      • Uploading a new template set
    • User Ranks
    • Users Management
    • Feedback
  • About XOOPS CMS
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  1. The Admin Interface

Banners

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2.5.1 What are they?

Banners are advertisements displayed in the top section of the page. They may be images or flash movies, e.g. the wildly gyrating XOOPS banner that is part of the default installation. XOOPS has a built in system for managing banners and creating accounts for advertising clients, which is found in the System Module -> Banners. You can have multiple banners on a XOOPS site – the display area rotates through each of the active banners in turn each time a new page is loaded.

Each time a banner is displayed to a visitor, this counts as one ‘impression’, which is the common trading currency of banners. Clients typically pay for a certain number of impressions – i.e. to have their advertisement displayed a certain number of times.

Please note: If you are in the business of selling banners based on the number of impressions there is one important thing you should do: Go to System Module -> Preferences -> General Settings and fill in the ‘Your IP Address’ field (if you have one). This will prevent your visits to the site from being included in the impression count. Failure to do this could be considered somewhat dishonest (noting, however, that many Administrators don’t have a permanent IP – e.g. those using dial up modems).

The Banner Administration section of the control panel is divided into several sections, described below:

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