Pay It Forward - In the Holiday Spirit

[NY Jester]

Spaceman - thanks. I actually have a rotator script written in php, that was given to me by another webmaster. Its a simple script and it calls the banners based on size (he has it set for each specific size with a few changes to the script) example where I want 120x60 banners to appear I place the banners_120 . php and where I want the 468x68 banners I place the banners_468 . php, etc. The only problem I see with that is that if I add a new sponsor, or remove a sponsor etc I have to then go in and edit the DB - am I making any sense?

BTW - I am not against learning and working with OpenAds at all.

[spacemanspiff]

Sounds like what you're saying is that there's not a web based interface that makes it easy to add sponsors, banners, etc. That you have to manually add them to the DB. Without knowing what sort of DB it uses on the backend and how the script works, I really can't tell you much. I'll be glad to take a look though.

With OpenAds, you do pretty much the same thing. Wherever you want a 120 X 60 banner, you place a little code on your page and it'll serve all banners of that size from all of your sponsors. If you want a 468 X 60 banner, you place a different bit of code. Then you can create your ads, with text if you want, in whatever editor you use (notepad, Frontpage, etc) and paste into the script. Then it's just a matter of clicking a check box to link the ad to the correct bit of code and they'll start loading. Deleting and disabling sponsors/ads is one click deal. Adding new sponsors isn't much more involved.

There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's not too bad. And once you get it figured out it's a pretty powerful script. It'll serve the ads, and once it gets some history data stored it places more priority on the ads that get clicked on more. It also has some stats reporting for ad views and ad clicks that's pretty slick.