Banners Standard Module

Banners may be used for advertising on your web site. The banner module works in conjunction with the banner configurations which have been made against the vendors accessed through the Vendors tab under the admin menu.

To begin we require a banner definition. Access the Vendors tab and create a new vendor. I usually update and return to the main vendor screen at this stage.  Now show all of the vendors and select your newly created vendor for editing. At the bottom, below the vendors details are two headings: Banner Advertising and Affiliate Referrals.  We are interested in Banner Advertising, click on Create New Banner.

For this article the main items of interest are: banenr name; Banner type and image. Give the banner a name and select which image shoall be displayed.  Now consider the banner type. This is dependant upon where the banner is to be displayed. Remember your choice for when we come to the second part of the exercise and reference it from our page.

Our next step is to return to the page upon which we want a banner. Insert the banner module, and select the edit option. For our exercise we are going to source this banner from theose on this host (our seb site). Now hopeful you have remembered what type of banner style you set previously.  Select this option here. Finally select how many banners are to be shown.

If you have selected more than one banner you will need to return to the vendors and and some more definitions.  Banners are able to provide details of the number of click throughs and a start and end date for the showing of a particular banner can be defined.  This is under the vendors tab.