Full Page Landing page ad... How to do it?

[stryka]

Right now i am currently doing it old skool and renaming my index.php whenever i want to put a banner ad on the homepage... and if i have more than one it is even more annoying for me to do...

Can ANYONE give me some ideas... does PHPADSNEW or any of the banner serving programs do full page ads?

I wouldn't just having one click-thru on a few other index pages but appearing ONLY once per day for a session/user...

Any hints/tips will be appreciated...

thanks

[Shaun(OfTheDead)]

If you can tamper with your server settings, you can have it look for and load up specified ad pages before "index.php".

So like, you'd change the priority of files from...

index.html
index.htm
index.php
default.html
etc...

...to...

advert_01.php
advert_02.php
index.html
index.htm
index.php
default.html
etc...

This way, when you have a campaign, be sure you have the "advert_01.php" file in your root and it will be served. When the campaign is over, delete it and the default "index.php" will be served instead.

Then of course, "advert_01.php" would have to create a cookie (or session variable) when it's viewed so that the next time the viewer comes upon the file it detects it and echoes an instant re-direct to "index.php".

That's how I'd do it anyway.



All that aside, full-page ads are annoying. Especially when there're more than one!

[stryka]

Thanks... yah they are annoying... that's why i was trying to limit the ad to one but rotating by using a adserver prg

[Jake Arkinstall]

If there's a site with a full page landing ad, I still visit because the content still may be useful.

However, I know alot of people who see an advert or splash screen and immediately press the back button - so it may not be a good idea after all.

[timbee]

I've got some experience with it. The way we did it was to create a hidden div and show that (and hide all the other content in the body).

How it's set off depends on the software serving the ad. We do it using js. just hiding and showing div's. I've done it using two different ad serving companies. Never tried it through OpenX (phpAdsNew).