Help Please - Banner Rotation

Fusionball's picture

He has: 11 posts

Joined: Apr 2007

Okay Roll eyes , let’s get the snickers out of the way. Yes – I am a Rookie Shocked at some of these items. However – I am trying to learn and I know when to ask for help – like now Confused .

Banner Rotation:
I have tried some of the scripts to get banners to rotate on my pages - No success yet. I am trying to learn how to do banner rotations so I can advertise and promote. Please help.

  • I am using Dreamweaver MX.
  • I have created three (3) gifs to use.
  • I have copied and pasted a couple of scripts (some in and and some just in ) and none are working.

Now how are they not working? On the simple script, which rotates the banner upon the opening of the page (which is not what I want – but I’m trying to get something to work), it shows a shadow of where the box goes and places the ALT TAG words – but no graphic. Also when you click on the box it goes to the URL indicated – but still – NO GRAPHIC BANNER.

I am not really ready for the FLASH banners yet (I would like to and need to) – but I would like to achieve something like http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ or like the little ad banners to the right -- in the “Webmaster-Forums” in the RIGHT SIDEBAR under the “Our Sponsors”.

Please help me get this right. I am in need of someone Cool who can advise, direct and answer the questions about what I may be doing wrong – until I can get it right.

Thank you for assistance and patience.

Fusionball

teammatt3's picture

He has: 2,102 posts

Joined: Sep 2003

Can you give us some more detail on what kind of rotation this is? Do you want just one gif displayed and on each refresh it picks a random one? Or do you want two displayed in a random order, but no single ad is shown twice? How do you want it setup? Also, what scripting language do you have on your hosting account (php, asp, jsp)?

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Fusionball's picture

He has: 11 posts

Joined: Apr 2007

At the present I have 3 gifs that I want to rotate out for specials that I am running this month. I would like the banners, for this project, to be one right after the other in order. However - my next project is to take other sites and advertise them - can be random.

HOST PROVIDES:
- PHP version 4.3.11
- PERL version 5.8.7
- Apache version 1.3.34 (Unix)
- MySQL version 4.1.21-standard

I can get more info if needed.

Fusionball

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