[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by skol

Thanks for the mod,I can see great potential for this...Question? When they upload an ad for consideration were is that file actually saved?

/dbtech/forumads/images/banners

Originally Posted by skol

How do you point your ad location to that image? Is it automatically done

It is indeed automatic

Originally Posted by skol

are we talking static images or can they upload .swf...

Flash files are not supported at this time.

Originally Posted by vissa

1) How does it handle sites that also use google adsense? Is it able to use adsense as the alternative if purchased ad-space isn't filled? Is there a threshhold you can set that the ad CPM must reach before they are allowed to replace adsense ads?

This mod does not feature adsense integration for placeholders at this time. If you post that @ our site, we'll take it into consideration

Originally Posted by vissa

2) How does the keyword targeting work? Does it replace every single word that occurs throughout the entire site, or can you specify a percentage of chance a keyword is replaced or # of keyword impressions or specific forum sections?

It replaces every instance of a word in a post - that counts as one impression.

It only replaces keywords in posts.

Originally Posted by vissa

Does it have the option to use an intermediary link redirect?

It does use a redirect, in order to support tracking clicks.

Originally Posted by vissa

3) Is there any way to charge per ad/keyword clicked?

Not retroactively, but as per the OP you can sell ads that are sold per 1 click/impression/day and advertisers can choose how many of the chosen metric they wish to buy in advance.

Originally Posted by vissa

4) Are we able to disable certain ad spots? I don't mind if it shows them all, but I only want to offer certain spots.

Don't create banner spaces for those ad spots

Originally Posted by vissa

5) It would also be awesome if we could offer custom ad spots (with code that could be manually inserted into the templates).. For example, if we wanted small box or skyscraper ads on the right side of the forum. They don't have to have an image, perhaps just a description created by the admin.

You can do this by creating a new ad_locations_vissacustomads.xml XML file in /includes/xml.

If you open ad_locations_vbulletin.xml you'll see the format. Once you rebuild vBulletin's ad locations, and run Forum Ads' maintenance task to rebuild ad integration, you will have the option of a new banner space location.

You can then place the {vb:raw ad_location.whateveryounamedit} in a template.

Originally Posted by vissa

The browser size issue sounds like a problem. According to Google, nearly 50% of browsers still are below 1250. See http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ . While the largest percentage of users may be at 1366, A) that doesn't mean the actual window size is that large, and B) 49% could still be well below that amount. I would target at least 75% of all users.

That site seems like it's not being updated any more in favour of Google Analytics on a per-site basis.

The statistics from W3Schools seem to counter your claim: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp & http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/br...ion_higher.asp for a breakdown of what "Higher" means.

So by targeting 1366px width, we are actually targeting over 90% of all users

We tend to design our products for the majority, and it's clear that the overwhelming majority have a higher screen resolution. Sure, this may not fit every single individual forum, but we can still say it covers the majority

A community catering to teaching the elderly about computing and the internet will probably have a higher percentage of IE users running older versions of Windows.
Does that mean we support IE6 on WinXP? Not by any stretch.

A community regarding hardware overclocking will probably have a higher percentage of Chrome or Firefox users running the newest version of Windows. Does that mean we don't support IE? Not by any stretch.

Update: Our Managing Director has informed me that for the future I should make the table of images fluid so that it can shrink to 1 image per line if the window is too narrow (and expand to 3+ images per line if the window is "too wide"), so look for that in a future update


Fillip