Banner Ad

The Banner Ad component for Interaction makes it easy to create and maintain rotating banner advertisements on your website. The banners are conveniently configured in a dialog on the Mac. Interaction automatically counts the number of impressions for each advertisements and calculates the click-through rate in real time.

The dialog above show how the rotating banner of this page is configured. The table to the left shows the three different advertisements of the banner. The fields to the right contains the image for the first ad (either the URL or markup), the url to the sponsoring site, and counters for how many have seen the advertisement or clicked on it to go to the sponsor.

Installing the Banner Ad Component

1. Download the Banner Ad archive.
2. Unstuff the archive (most browsers will do this for you).
3. Find the appropriate version of the component in the folder that best matches your version of Interaction.
4. Put the component file in the Components folder of Interaction
5. Restart Interaction to activate the component.

New banners are created by choosing New Entity from the File menu of Interaction. After configuring the banner in the dialog, simply place an XML entity reference in the page or pages where you want to embed the banner (e.g. &banner;). You can create any number of banners, each with one or more advertisements.

Directory of Consultants

The following is a directory of individuals and organizations that provide services related to banner ads: