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JWL 12-28-2010 03:59 PM

Doesnt work with VBadvanced

mikeinjersey 12-28-2010 05:32 PM

how many different Ad locations are possible with this hack ? From the description it makes it seem like only 1 or 2 positions are available..

onehost 12-28-2010 10:13 PM

y2,

I have not really looked over your banner hack, but would you say it is
better then digitpoints hack? also, can ads also show up in blog posts?

This also looks a little complicated to install...I also see that you install
the hack on forums, is there a fee for you to do this? More then likely
I will have you do this as I do not know how to setup the placeholders
that are required for the banners to run, and I have a couple of themes
that may need to be modified in order for you to do this....

Can someone post their forum that is using this mod? Would like to
see this in action on a forum already using the mod.

Thank-You Sir,

y2ksw 12-29-2010 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeinjersey (Post 2140242)
how many different Ad locations are possible with this hack ? From the description it makes it seem like only 1 or 2 positions are available..

Normally, you would use 1 placeholder for any kind of banner in your pages. This gives you any imaginable number of locations.

The positions 0...9 are merely types of banners, such as horizontal and vertical, although this is not entirely true. It is up to you how to use locations, my tip is to use as little as possible - most of the times, position 0 is just fine, for 1 or 100 banners on your page :)

y2ksw 12-29-2010 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onehost (Post 2140366)
y2,

I have not really looked over your banner hack, but would you say it is
better then digitpoints hack? also, can ads also show up in blog posts?

This also looks a little complicated to install...I also see that you install
the hack on forums, is there a fee for you to do this? More then likely
I will have you do this as I do not know how to setup the placeholders
that are required for the banners to run, and I have a couple of themes
that may need to be modified in order for you to do this....

Can someone post their forum that is using this mod? Would like to
see this in action on a forum already using the mod.

Thank-You Sir,

I can't tell if it is better as anything else, but I have tried a lot of banner software before making my own. Currently, it is the most flexible banner tool for vBulletin, which I have come across.

The installation is as simple as any other product which has additional files, it needs FTP and basic knowledge of installing products.

Just follow the Flash help to get one banner running. Once you mastered that, you will discover the ease of adding more banners to your forums ... just insist and don't give up :)

Here is one site it uses it.

oddmud 12-29-2010 09:14 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by y2ksw (Post 2125608)
Here, as an unofficial addon, you get the autorefreshing page (tested). It needs:

- a text editor;
- a refresh time of your choice (see metatag refresh in file, now at 10 seconds);
- a banner location (see placeholder in file, now at position 0);
- at least a banner for that location;
- a global target of a new page aka _blank (RBS options), else you jump into the iframe;
- a template modification for a 468x60 banner:
HTML Code:

<iframe src="rbs_iframe.php" align="center" frameborder="0" height="60" width="468" scrolling="no"></iframe>
Please note: with smaller banners you get white borders, with larger than the iframe area, they are clipped.

This works all fine and dandy, except it adds the tweetboard in to the frame, and it looks rather silly. Any way to fix this? Are you planning on adding this in to the future releases? options for auto-rotation instead of just refresh rotation?

y2ksw 12-29-2010 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oddmud (Post 2140978)
This works all fine and dandy, except it adds the tweetboard in to the frame, and it looks rather silly. Any way to fix this? Are you planning on adding this in to the future releases? options for auto-rotation instead of just refresh rotation?

You will have to adapt the iframe dimensions in order to make it look like it should.

I do not plan to add this to the product, since pages are usually shown from a few seconds to at most a few minutes, and in-place rotating does make no sense. Based on a 1 million page hit history at a commercial site with forums, only a very few pages (1...5) are shown more than 2 minutes. Also it would require me to respond to even more HTML questions which I am unable to answer.

There are no other options to rotate a banner efficiently in-place. You may look for Javascript, but then you will have to handle all devices which have no Java enabled with Content-Refresh anyways.

Have a nice weekend and a happy new year ... I'm off for a few days :)

onehost 12-30-2010 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by y2ksw (Post 2140917)
I can't tell if it is better as anything else, but I have tried a lot of banner software before making my own. Currently, it is the most flexible banner tool for vBulletin, which I have come across.

The installation is as simple as any other product which has additional files, it needs FTP and basic knowledge of installing products.

Just follow the Flash help to get one banner running. Once you mastered that, you will discover the ease of adding more banners to your forums ... just insist and don't give up :)

Here is one site it uses it.

That looks like a very simple rotation...but I would like to place banners in
certairn areas of the forum, not just at the top, how about placement?
does this mod have any payment options or is it all manual? auto pay, auto show?

y2ksw 12-30-2010 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onehost (Post 2141107)
That looks like a very simple rotation...but I would like to place banners in
certairn areas of the forum, not just at the top, how about placement?
does this mod have any payment options or is it all manual? auto pay, auto show?

It is a simple rotation ... the complexity depends on your settings, and same are the locations in your styles. You may overfill the pages or leave them bland, as you wish. The number of entries in the database and the number of placeholders in your styles define where to show how many different banners. By the way, it is a good idea to install it on a test board and just try. It is much easier to use than to describe.

And no, there is no auto-magic. You handle it all :)

oddmud 12-30-2010 04:27 PM

I listened to you, and removed the auto-rotation. I love your mod, the tracking is awesome.


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