Software Banners

These software programs run on your server and display and rotate advertisements on Web pages. They can also track and target ads and users based on various criteria.

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Ad Software Shoot Out

Charlie Morris corrals all the ad software guns in town, and when their pistols stop a-blazin' and the smoke settles he'll show ya' the best one for your spread.

Ad Management Software

Ad Juggler

Advanced ad management software, multiple versions and price levels, for many different hardware and OS platforms.

Ad Server Solutions

Ad serving software with ad targetting and real time reporting.

BannerServer.com

BannerServer.com offers a central ad server solution to provide online banner serving, management, rotation and tracking services.

Central Ad

Support for serving HTML, text, form-enabled and other types of ads to multiple advertiser campaigns. Web-based management interface, with multiple security features.

DoubleClick AdServer

Sophisticated mission-critical ad management system. Multiple languages and server platforms supported. Used by the some of the busiest sites on the Web.

OrbitCycle

Practically free, advertising management system that is remotely hosted. Orbit Cycle reserves 10% of the banner space on your site for their ads leaving 90% of the space for your ads.

Origent.com - Makers of Adelage Ad Server

Adelage Ad Server is a comprehensive ad server, with built-in reporting, invoicing, keyword-based ad-targeting, impression-pacing, unsold inventory tracking, and multilingual ad support.

WebAdverts

Shareware ad rotation management system, written in Perl. Banners can be displayed on your pages either through SSI calls, so that each time a page is loaded, a new banner will appear, via standard IMG tags, or IFRAME tags.

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Advertising Networks

@dVenture Advertisers are offered a range of options and can target by site, by group of interest category or by targeted demographics across all of AdVernture's sites. Aaddzz Performance-based advertising network; features: pay per click-thru, automatic banner targeting, real-time reporting, support for standard banner sizes. Aaddzz takes a 20% commission, floating CPM, minimum $10 CPM.
AdAce Targeted advertising services for small businesses on the Net. Ad-Net

Offers web sites a choice to have centrally served ads or site hosted ads. ADSmart.net

An advertising network that represents inventory from Web sites who attract strong, targeted audiences. Commission rates are variable depending upon the number of impressions available and the range of services chosen by the Web site. BannerAdNetwork

Free banner ad exchange network BURST! Media

Focused on providing ads for special-interest and niche-focused Web sites, BURST! helps manage more than 700 million advertising impressions per month for over 3000 publisher members. DoubleClick

Selective advertising network that brings buyers and sellers together with an innovative program that requires only one line of standard HTML. Represents some of the busiest sites on the Web. IntelliClicks

The first banner exchange network to offer the ability to include sound effects with your banner ad. LinkExchange/BCentral

Advertise your site for free in this banner exchange service from Microsoft. ValueClick

Ad network, guarantees to buy 100% of advertising space on host sites, performance-based pricing for advertisers. Webconnect

Ad placement service. Delivers highly targeted advertising coverage in a variety of market areas on the World Wide Web.

Collections

About.com: Ad Network Listings

Listing of top Web ad networks from About.com. Ad-Guide.com: Advertising Networks

Lists and ratings (by user vote) of all the major ad networks available on the Net. Refer-it: Ad Networks

Directory of Ad Network referral programs.

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Advertising Management Services

ActiveAd A campaign management service which simplifies online media buying for advertising agencies. Agencies using ActiveAd Central can outsource trafficking, tracking, and report preparation using ActiveAd Central's database-driven online media buying system. AdForce A full-service, end-to-end advertising management solution for ad networks and large Web Sites. Without requiring the purchase of hardware or software, AdForce offers unique benefits to advertisers, Web publishers and ad sales organizations. Adometer Powerful and easy to use advertising management system. Use this system to manage your own website advertising or set up a network of your own. AdResource Meta-page of advertising and promotion resources. ASET Advertising, contact and sales management software. CyberFirst Offers a "turn-key" advertising sales and ad management service. It includes, not only advertising sales representation, but also the ability to manage scheduling, delivery, tracking, reporting and billing functions. CyberGold Watch and ad, take a quiz to make sure you actually read the ad and about the product and presto, earn CyberGold! Focalink (*) Offers SmartBanner, a centralized ad management service for sites and advertisers, which provides hassle-free web advertising, and MarketMatch, a web media planning tool. LinkExchange Microsoft-owned site focused on promotion and advertising tools and services geared towards the small business owner. Web Ad Management Services New Media Advertising Management Companies - Yahoo (Collection) MatchLogic Exclusively a service company, they do not buy or sell media, they don't represent web sites or sell software, nor do they compete with ad agencies on any level. OrbitCycle Practically free, advertising management system that is remotely hosted. Orbit Cycle reserves 10% of the banner space on your site for their ads leaving 90% of the space for your ads. The Silver Company An internet advertising sales service organization geared toward individual websites with traffic of higher than 150,000 impressions/month. In partnership with NetGravity.

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Advertising Resource Collections

Adbility's Web Publisher Advertising Guide Comprehensive collection of links covering all aspects of internet advertising, including software, links, articles, advice on avoiding "Web Pirates", warnings on non-existant/Vaporware companies and more. Adresource.com A large collection of resources, links and articles for advertisers. Advertising Law Internet Site From Arent Fox, a thorough collection of articles and links covering advertising and Internet advertising law. Includes current FTC information.
Advertising World "Resources for advertising & marketing professionals, students, and teachers." Extensive collection of advertising-related links on the Web. A vast array of links organized across hundreds of ad subjects. Clickz.com Large collection of advertising, marketing and online business related links, articles and news. E-Commerce Guide News and links about online advertising, marketing and commerce. Internet Advertising Resource Guide An organized collection of links related to Net advertising. Surveys, legal news, industry-specific information, research and more. Online Advertising Discussion List Thousands of advertising professions use this mailing list to keep abreast of the latest developments in the Web advertising world. Website Promotion: Advertising and Banners DMOZ Open Directory Link Collection WWW Advertising ManagementYahoo Link Collection

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Widget Initialization Using JSON, HTML Custom Tags and XML files

Component reuse is a must in development. Reuse reduces development time, avoids coding errors, visual components will look identical, and so on... Code once, use anywhere! DHTML (Dynamic HTML) components or widgets are common nowadays; existing all over the Internet, from simple components such as calendars, toolbars, menus, etc., to more sophisticated frameworks like the Yahoo! UI Library. These components will behave in a different way according to some parameters or properties passed to them. This article will explain some ways to configure DHTML widgets, exposing its pros and cons, as well as programming techniques to avoid errors and speed up development time.

Properties declaration

Imagine a “List widget,” a common widget used to display, for example, tabular customer data. This kind of widget is also called a table or grid widget and will be used along the examples. To place a widget in a page, this example will retrieve widget properties, construct a widget object, then place it where the

reference is located. Properties give shape to our widget (height, weight, number of rows, etc.) including its behavior (such as the onclick event, onmouseover event, etc). Throughout this article, various ways to perform this task will be detailed:

a) Old style declarations with global variables

Global variables are defined and used as widget property values. This kind of declaration should not be used in order to avoid global scope issues.

var rows = 3; var columns = new Array(); // Then all or some properties are used in the list widget constructor

b) Parameters to the constructor object

The properties of the widget are defined as passing parameters to the list widget constructor. This approach solves the global scope issue but the number of properties to pass is fixed. If we want to add a new property to the widget, the method signature must be changed, and thus, if we have a lot of properties in our widget, the method signature will become unreadable. This option is not recommended if we want to have an extensible widget Framework.

// The properties are defined with various parameters // that are passed to the list constructor var list = new List('customer', 3, rowsArray);

c) JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) as a properties object.

This option uses JSON notation as a method to pass parameters, avoiding global scope issues, reducing the number of parameters and increasing code readability. This alternative is 100% pure JavaScript programming, as opposed to the use of Custom Tags and XML files (explained in following sections), which denotes simpler and easier notation.

By Nicolas Erlijman
source: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/widgets/index.html

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Copy and Paste JavaScript with an Ajax Engine

It's not necessary to understand the characteristics of Ajax in order to use it. This article provides copy and paste JavaScript with an Ajax engine. No modifications are necessary.

If you really want to get into the nitty-gritty of Ajax, here are a few pages with good information. Google "Ajax tutorial" for more.

• Understanding Ajax: Getting Started

• AJAX Components

• Database-enabled Ajax with PHP

• Professional Ajax: XML, XPath, and XSLT, Pt. 1

Copy the following JavaScript and paste it into the HEAD area of your Web page source code.

The JavaScript could go pretty much anywhere, in the HEAD or BODY area, so long as it's not pasted within other JavaScript or inside an HTML tag. In the HEAD it's easier to manage, with less clutter in the BODY area where you'll be working with the examples.

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> function ReplaceElementID(url,id) { var httpRequest; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { try { httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch(e) {} } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { try { httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch(e) { try { httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch(e) {} } } if(! httpRequest) { alert('\n\nGiving up :(\n\nCannot create an AJAX connection.'); return false; } httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { ContainerContents(httpRequest,id); }; httpRequest.open('GET',url,true); httpRequest.send(''); } // function makeRequestGET() function ContainerContents(content,id) { try { if (content.readyState == 4) { if(content.status == 200) { document.getElementById(id).innerHTML=content.responseText; } else { alert('\n\nThere was a problem with the request.\n\nStatus code: '+content.status+'\n'+content.statusText); } } } catch(error) { alert('Error: '+error.name+' -- '+error.message); } } // function ContainerContents() </script>

Congratulations. You have completed placing JavaScript with an Ajax engine on your Web page.

Now, let's learn how to use it.

Three things are required to use the JavaScript Ajax engine:

1. The URL(s) of the content to be retrieved.
2. A place on your Web page to put the content.
3. A link to trigger the JavaScript, causing it to retrieve the content and put it where you want it.

The URLs of the Content To Be Retrieved

The content to be retrieved can be pretty much whatever you want it to be — text, images, forms, JavaScript, sound — any valid HTML source code.

It's important that the file with the content must be on the same domain as the Web page with the JavaScript Ajax engine. This is a restriction of the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function, the heart of Ajax. (Work-arounds require relay software on the server. This is addressed later.)

The examples in this article assume you have two files on your server, fileone.html and filetwo.html. They will contain content for the JavaScript Ajax engine to retrieve.

For use in the examples, let fileone.html contain:

<h1>I am fileone.html</h1>

And, let filetwo.html contain:

<h1>I am filetwo.html</h1>

Upload files fileone.html and filetwo.html into the document root of your server (the directory where your domain's main or index Web page file is located). The files could be in other directories. The examples below assume they are in the document root.

By Will Bontrager

source: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/w_b/index.html

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Rotating Banner

The JavaScript Source: Miscellaneous: Rotating Banner

Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad or Simple Text) and save (Control-s or Command-s). The script is yours!!!

<!-- TWO STEPS TO INSTALL ROTATING BANNER: 1. Copy the coding into the HEAD of your HTML document 2. Add the last code into the BODY of your HTML document --> <!-- STEP ONE: Paste this code into the HEAD of your HTML document --> <head> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- This script and many more are available free online at --> <!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com --> <!-- Begin var maxAdNo = 2 var adNo var myAd = new Array() myAd[0] = '<img src="/img/rotating-banner/clipartlogo.gif" width="194" height="37" border="0" />' myAd[1] = '<a href="http://javascript.internet.com/">Try The JavaScript Source</a>' myAd[2] = '<img src="/img/rotating-banner/webref.gif" width="128" height="69" border="0" />' // End --> </script> </head> <!-- STEP TWO: Copy this code into the BODY of your HTML document --> <body> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- Begin adNo = Math.round(Math.random() * maxAdNo) document.write(myAd[adNo]) // End --> </script> <p><center> <span style="font-family:arial, helvetica;">Free JavaScripts provided<br /> by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript Source</a></span> </center><p> <!-- Script Size: 1.14 KB -->

source: http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/rotating-banner.html

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