Ads on the frontpage?

[sturla]

Hi. I'm setting up a site with CMSMS. It's for a gym actually. The ower would like the front page of his site to include some ads. Ads for upcomeing events an such. Say like 4-5 ads on the frontpage. How can I in the easiest way implement that? Without hardcoding it into the front page template? And so that he easily can remove one ad or replace it?

[cyberman]

Ads for upcomeing events an such.

Calendar module has a special mode for that.

[calguy1000]

Or the banners module

[sturla]

Tanks Is the banner mudule part of the default install? And you can have several banners like you have several news entries?

[calguy1000]

Tanks Is the banner mudule part of the default install? And you can have several banners like you have several news entries?

Answer 1: No it's not part of the standard install, it's available from Menumanager, and from the forge though
Answer 2: Yep, several banners, it tracks clickthrougs, bannery expiry, limits the number of impressions, etc.
       

[sturla]

Thanks, that sounds just like what I need. Have you ever used it yourself in such a way?

[RonnyK]

Sturla,

I'm using it on one of the sites I created. On www.terspille.nl in the left column is a banner which goes through a list of about 20 sponsors, so that every time an add is randomly displayed, and clicking it brings you to a defined hyperlink. As stated in earlier replys, you can select dates, track the times displayed, track the times clicked etc..... You can also state that you want to show the banner with the least views being displayed.

RonnyK

[sturla]

Sounds like a great feature! Nice website to, by the way 

Just one question; can I place more than one add on the same page? Like a list of ads? Like with the news module?

[calguy1000]

Sounds like a great feature! Nice website to, by the way 

Just one question; can I place more than one add on the same page? Like a list of ads? Like with the news module?

Sure, just use.... uhm... lemme look....  oh yeah, the 'category' pareamter
so {cms_module module='Banners' category='blah1'} and it'll pick through all of the banners in the blah1 category, and {cms_module module='Banners' category='blah2'} and it'll pick through all of the banners in that category, and yes, you can have as many calls to the banner module in a single page as you want, and name the categories anything you want.