Lawrence,
We currently use openx to inject adcode into Wordpress and forum (VB). Your addon seems promising but it only works for forum side, correct? Would it be able to copy and paste a piece of code and post them on non-XF part of the site?
Thank you Lawrence for taking suggestion on board... really hope to see development of your addon.
Do you plan to update addon any time soon, Lawrence?
XenAMS works well for those with a few banners to display, but for those with a large number, managing them can be time-intensive, and a daunting task. As the banner itself is the ad, if you wanted to use the same banner in multiple categories you need to upload the same banner with a different name, and that is really not Admin friendly at all. Another problem with that is you can not swap out the banner with another one and maintain the stats.
So, to answer your question, XenAMS is going through a complete re-write. Ads will no longer be dependent on banners. This will allow for greater flexibility, and will allow you to create ads that contain one banner, multiple banners, served ads (adsense), or any combination. And you will be able to use the same banner in multiple ads, edit the ad(s), swap out a banner for another, without losing the ad at all. The upside to this approach is that if you accidentally remove a banner from the system, the ad will still be in tact and display it. Another upside is if you want multiple banners to be displayed in one location at the same time, then the query count will still stay the same as an ad with just one banner. You can make each "ad package" available globally, or only available for a specific Node ID, or multiple Node ID's.
Another thing, banners in the AdminCP will be displayed as thumbnails. The way it is now, with a lot of banners, it just isn't user friendly.
WoOW that sounds amazing
Right now, the stats are per banner, which if enough effort is put in by uploading duplicate banners - forum specific statistics can be generated.XenAMS works well for those with a few banners to display, but for those with a large number of banners, managing them can be time-intensive and confusing. As the banner itself is the ad, if you wanted to use the same banner in multiple categories you need to upload the same banner with a different name, and that is really not Admin friendly at all. Another problem with that is you can not swap out the banner with another one and maintain the stats.
So, to answer your question, XenAMS is going through a complete re-write. Ads will no longer be dependent on banners. This will allow for greater flexibility, and will allow you to create ads that contain one banner, multiple banners, served ads (adsense), or any combination. And you will be able to use the same banner in multiple ads, edit the ad(s), swap out a banner for another, without losing the ad at all. The upside to this approach is that if you accidentally remove a banner from the system, the ad will still be in tact and display it. Another upside is if you want multiple banners to be displayed in one location at the same time, then the query count will still stay the same as an ad with just one banner. You can make each "ad package" available globally, or only available for a specific Node ID, or multiple Node ID's.
Another thing, banners in the AdminCP will be displayed as thumbnails. The way it is now, with a lot of banners, it just isn't user friendly.
Right now, the stats are per banner, which if enough effort is put in by uploading duplicate banners - forum specific statistics can be generated.
As an example, if there was a single banner ad in this xf.com 'add on releases' forum, then the level of activity in the 'add on releases' forum could be determined. Will that still be the case after the changes? Or will statistics be per ad?
Lawrence, my ads do not seem to rotate, despite configuring them to be switched every 10 seconds. When I check the page's source code, I also only see one ad as being loaded. Is this behaviour by design?
Like Dean, I also cannot wait to see the next version. If at all possible, I'd love to have a feature where I can put in a sponsor's mail address, and having an automatic mail sent out at the end of every month containing the statistics tracked by XenAMS for their ad.
Any news Lawrence ?
Would reaaaaaaally love to install that addon
How about Ads inside the first thread/post on the top left corner with text wrap? I would like to use Adsense and this would be very effective. Like the example here.
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I'll see what I can do as this is my next section I'm working on.
What ad locations do you think should be included?
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