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I have been experiencing a issue with flash banners. When I have a flash banner show up under my navbar and then I click in one of my drop down boxes in the navbar the flash banner appears on top of the drop down box. This cover up the items in the dropdowns. How can I prevent this from happening?

When you have flash banners which show over menues, they are not transparent. This is a general problem with flash banners and eventually you fix it with the attribute wmode="transparent" and explicit code. However, using the wrapper you should not have this problem, because it is transparent.

y2ksw

07-13-2011 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by mdreamer (Post 2218857)

Hi,

Thank you for your replay. I have 2 questions:
1. If my flash has an internal URL I can't track clicks? do i get this right?
2. I guess when you wrote the Text field you meant the field with the description:
"
TextThis field may hold any kind of script (e.g. Google AdSense) and/or HTML which will be inserted in your pages. Please make sure it works and that all tags are closed properly.
"
When you say "leave the other fields empty" - what fields are you referring to?

Thanks
Maayan Dreamer

If you use the wrapper, you can.
Create a new banner and just fill the fields you really need. This is what I mean :)

y2ksw

07-13-2011 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadgerDog (Post 2218863)

Any follow up help with this problem that appears under vbCMS?

Thanks

Regards,
Doug

Maybe the div tag is defined in CSS in a way it will look weird on Safari :)

Sorry, it's just an idea. I have no real clue about HTML.

y2ksw

07-13-2011 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Londonladadz (Post 2219059)

I've figured out the first issue.

I have a quick question and this this might be nooby, but how would I centre the banner located in ad_navbar_below?

Many Thanks!

gotcha! You didn't read the help :)

<div align="center">...</div> will do the job.

y2ksw

07-13-2011 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MySaltyreef (Post 2219098)

if i want 2 banners one under the other in the ad_navbar_below can i just add another position under the current as an example

i have put



can i use it like this

You better use:
<br />


Because: you can reuse the same position as often as you want for the same banner type on the same page. All you need is enough banners in your database ;)

y2ksw

07-13-2011 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Londonladadz (Post 2219913)

Right I've got it centred, thanks for the reply.

When I disable the google ad, that comes with the plugin. The ad disappears even though I have one installed. So, to confirm:

URL: URL to linked website that is being advertised
Image/Flash: Image URL

So as an example
URL: http://www.google.com
Image/Flash: http://www.example.com/image.png
Tick click tracking
I leave the flash banner options as I'm not using flash, just an image
Max Clicks: 300

Thats correct right? As I dont seem to see an ad when I disable the google ones. Im expecting for a proper face palm moment but as long as it gets sorted ill happily take the palm!

Check also the time frame. I have found that many servers are out of sync quite a lot (few hours to few days) and thus banners will not show because they are "expired" or not yet to be shown :)

BadgerDog

07-13-2011 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by y2ksw (Post 2219922)

Maybe the div tag is defined in CSS in a way it will look weird on Safari :)

Sorry, it's just an idea. I have no real clue about HTML.

Thanks Giovanni ...

I even tried removing the <div> code and just leaving this as the only thing in the template:



... and it still appears at the top of the forum instead of the bottom, overwriting the navbar area ...

Regards,
Doug

Edit: Problem fixed ....

Old template contents:
<div align="center"></div>

New template contents:
<div align="center" class="block"></div>

For some reason, Safari browsers on any platform including iPhones/iPads needs to see the code changed as shown in the New template.

y2ksw

07-16-2011 08:02 PM

Nice, I knew you would have checked it out :D

jbizzle

07-18-2011 02:36 AM

I'm trying to add the ads in between two forum categories, is that possible? I can't figure out how..

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