We just use Photoshop or whatever other graphics app is handy. No special software required. My biggest problem is creativity. It's not easy to keep coming up with brand new designs. Especially ones that fit in with all of our styles.

I assume you simply store them in the images file on your site and point the rotating ad mod to that URL.


Nelson

Yes, is there any other way?

Working on 4.1.12, it takes some time to learn how to use it but it's well documented.

Thanks!

It's taken me a while to get back to the site, but I'm still having trouble.

So I found that little box in settings that says to show only on homepage... I unchecked that so that all the banners should be rotating evenly throughout the site. NOW the problem I have is that NONE of the banners are showing up on the homepage! How do I get the banners to show up on the homepage? I've selected ALL the forum selections in the Forum options of the settings. Thanks! (the banner area I'm referencing is the top main header area)
www.fordgtalley.com

Ok I have a weird one.

VB4.2
VBadvanced CMPS

Banners show
But you can not click on them? Yes there is a link in the "URL" spot.

Any ideas?

I have noticed a small one too, in the past several versions:

The start and end dates fields... The times will change sometimes, after you save them.

Set it, save it, go back and check and it has different times.

I always assumed it had to do with me and my server being in different time zones - or something of that sort.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

You may also hotlink banners from other sites and link them to your landing pages :D

1. To show a banner on all pages, deselect the "Home" option and also don't select any of the sections; this is the default for new banners.
2. To show a banner on home and pages which have no section (PM, profile etc), select the "Home" option and don't select any of the sections.
3. To show the banner in one or more sections but the home, deselect the "Home" option and select the desired sections and subsections (they don't propagate permissions).
4. To show the banner in one or more sections and the home, you need to create one banner for the home and one for the sections.

Hope this helps :)

It is a server issue. If the time zone of the MySQL server isn't the same as the server's timezone, there may be a time shift for one or more hours each time you save. The problem goes usually away when synching time with NTP once and then on all servers.