I loathe and detest ad banners.

But when you run a board where 50% 'unregistered users' use it, and you want to increase the amount of users you have registered, it might be worth experimenting with an ad banner for unregistered users only.

Enclosed is the code to do that: it's modifying two templates.


This is v2 of the code, with the following enhancements:
- Hide ad banners for users who have donated
- Bug fix: I didn't close the 'normalfont' tag!
- Force users to both register AND verify e-mail addresses

Plus, enhanced information for users, following feedback here


Good sources of ad banners are www.valueclick.com and www.advertwizard.com

And a screenshot:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Users who want to see what this does: the forums are at http://forums.mediauk.com/

Your username and password are both "vbulletinorg"

Hey now :) That IS handy :P
We have been thinking about ways of implementing a banner system .. I believe you found a solution!
I thank you very much!

Great pleasure. It works for me, so... :)

looks great I am about to install this!

This is very cool! Very simple addition and it sure serves a purpose! :bunny:

i cant get it to work

What problems are you having, and I'll see if I can help...

I cant add html without it freaking out...

Aha, thanks.

You need to be careful when using " characters... either use ' or "escape" them by putting a \ character in front.

i.e...

a href="link.html"

won't work, and will result in an error.

a href='link.html'
or
a href=\"link.html\"

will both work just fine.