The Manual for the “Banner Management System” (v. 4.x.x)

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The Manual for the “Banner Management System” (v. 4.x.x)


You may find the Banner Management System in Admin panel --> Site Layout --> Banners.

First you need to add a New Banner Group (for example, “topbanner”).
You may define the following properties for a group:
-   name
-   short description
-   maximum size (height and width) of a banner in the group
The system ignores a banner’s size if the “Max Image Size” values are empty.
-   Flash – indicates if a swf-file is used. There is no “Delay Time,s” property for such banners, hits and clicks are not countered. Instead of the “Delay Time,s” property Show, times

In case a group has at least one banner, you are unable to delete the group. The editing is also limited; you may only change the name of a group and its description.

After a group is added, you may edit its content (edit or add banners) through the “Edit & View Banners” link.

You need to indicate the following in order to add a non-Flash banner:
-   Caption
-   Image file – you may use the gif, png, jpg/jpeg file formats.
-   Delay time, s – the time a banner is displayed in seconds.
-   Link URL – the URL where a banner is linked to.
-   Active – you may make a banner active manually.

You need to indicate the following in order to add a Flash banner (within a “Flash”ed banner group):
-   Caption
-   Flash file – you may use the gif, png, jpg/jpeg file formats.
-   Show, times – the number of times a banner is shown.
Flash banners rotate when a page is reloaded (refreshed).

You may change the order of banners arrangement by clicking red arrows “up” or “down”.

You also may edit any banner’s settings.

After you’ve created a group and added banners there, you may insert the code to display banners on your site: Site Layout --> Page Templates --> choose one of the pages listed there, for example, main.tpl.

On your right you may see the dropdown lists for Modules and for Functions. You need to choose the “miscellaneous” module and the “rotate” function underneath. Also please define the “group_id” parameter – the ID of a banner group - it is in the "#" column in the list of all banner groups.

Then you need to click the "Insert" link above the "Module" dropdown list and you'll be able to see a code to display banners in the very beginning of the page code; it will look like the following:
{module name="miscellaneous" function="rotate" group_id="1"}
Cut that line and insert it where you wish the banners to display, use <center>, <align="right"> etc. to display them correctly.