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WebAdverts Banner Rotator Installation
I had WebAdverts installed some time ago by a person here in the GT forums. I recently changed hosts, and the WebAdverts program has been upgraded a few times. I can't seem to get it working.

I need someone to install it, and a slight modification made so it will show banner advertisements according to zones for each category. The script is written in Perl.
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Re: [Ben Densin] WebAdverts Banner Rotator Installation In reply to
Hi,

You considered used GT's AdCycle plugin? This has zoning built into it - without needing any editing (also a piece of cake to install :))

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Actually I do have adcycle, but I don't see anywhere in the program that I can assign zones, I thought it showed a banner rotation throughout the whole links directory. I'll have another look at it. Thanks for that tip, might not need anybody in that case!
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Re: [Ben Densin] WebAdverts Banner Rotator Installation In reply to
Hi,

Do you have the *plugin* of AdCycle though? Thats where the zones are done as far as I can remember =) (in Plugins > AdCycle)

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I'm not sure what you mean... I did get it through Gossamer Threads. A case of RTFM on my part! I've gone through the help files on the WebAdverts site (forum seems to be down). This is off topic I know, but does WebAdverts display banners in categories or only according to search results? I also have another question which doesn't seem to be answered, namely, how do I specify the banner image to be displayed? I don't see any option for it, but the system is giving me the HTML code for the advert without me specifying the image to be shown. Can't figure that out... I'll search the GT forums to see if I can find the answers also... Sorry for going off topic!

OK modifying this, I see lots of info about Webadverts I didn't see before, will check it!
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Ben Densin: Feb 11, 2009, 8:08 AM
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Re: [Ben Densin] WebAdverts Banner Rotator Installation In reply to
Hi,

PM/Email me your GLinks admin details, and I'll take a quick look to see if you have AdCycle setup right.

Re WebAdverts - I'm afraid I've never used it - sorry.

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I just wanted to follow up here. After Jack at GT re-installed it, I found the options to target specific categories in the plug-ins page in the GT admin section, and not in the AdCycle admin. I would have never thought to look there, there was nothing about it in the documentation. Thanks to Jack for the assistance, AdCycle will more than meet my needs! :)
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Re: [Ben Densin] WebAdverts Banner Rotator Installation In reply to
Cool, thought it'd do what you wanted =)

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Andy wrote:
Hi,

You considered used GT's AdCycle plugin? This has zoning built into it - without needing any editing (also a piece of cake to install :))

Cheers

I'm using Openx at the moment (www.openx.org) but want to have more targeting option to keyword and categories. Can this be done with AdCycle?

Also, on this forum I've red that AdCycle using much of processor time. Is this correct? Will my host company ban me if I use AdCycle?

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Re: [DeadMan] WebAdverts Banner Rotator Installation In reply to
Hi,

Not 100% sure about the keyword targetting in AdCycle, but you can definatly do category targetting.

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Also, on this forum I've red that AdCycle using much of processor time. Is this correct? Will my host company ban me if I use AdCycle?

I can't see it being that much of a burden on the server.

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