Banner Rotator Workshop User's Manual
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Introduction
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Menu
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User Interface
1. Introduction
Welcome to Banner Rotator Workshop Software!
Banner Rotator Workshop Software generates the Dynamic Banner Rotators for your web pages
using Astonishing Visual Effects. That will grab the attention of your visitors and increase
the performance of your ads several times. The Dynamic banner rotation has two aspects.
Firstly, it increases the effective web ads real estate without increasing the web advertising
visual area on your web pages. You save space and at the same time show more ads that you
could before, to the same visitor. Secondly, the technology cutting edge visual effects
attract the Visitor enhance the Visitor's perception of the advertised information several times.
When designing your banner rotators you may choose the banner content, effect, adjust the
banner link, and other visual settings. The user interface is organized in tabs and sections.
The tabs (screens) of the interface are covered comprehensively in manual section
3. User Interface.
The software application has menus used to manipulate projects and access help. You may save
and load banner rotator projects using the "File" menu and open different help topics using
the "Help" menu. The menus are covered in manual section 2. Menu.
Anywhere using the interface, at anytime, you may press F1 key to receive immediate help
on the control that has the focus. If you need help on a certain control just click it with the
mouse and then press F1.
While working on your banner rotators you may use the Preview Button at the bottom of the interface
to preview your current work.
2. Menu
Use the File menu to save and load Banner Rotator projects. You may start a new Banner Rotator
project by choosing a new project command. You will be asked to save your unsaved project.
Use the Help menu to access different help topics and examples either from your installation
or an online topic.
3. User Interface
Banner Rotator Workshop user interface consists of two tabs with controls used to set various banner rotator features.
The tabs are described below in detail.
Content tab
The Content tab consists of a general settings section (settings for the whole rotator) and
banners list section where you edit individual banners. The banner list lists all the banners
currently inserted in the rotator. In the list, the settings of each banner are grouped in 6 sections:
- On the left - the banner consecutive number and buttons used to move the banner up and down and
to delete the banner.
- "Banner file on hard disk" section. Here you setup the banner file (source) on your hard disk.
- "Banner file on Internet" section. Here you setup the banner file (source) on the Internet (URL).
- "Banner effect" section. Here you setup the banner visual transition effect.
- "Banner link settings" section. Here you setup the banner link.
- "Banner visualization" section. Here you can observer the banner as it will look. You may
see the chosen banner effect in action. In this section you may also setup additional banner settings.
General Settings for the Banner Rotator
Here you can setup the following attributes and features of your banner rotator:
- Base URL for all banner files. This URL give the base address for all banner files on the Internet.
If you plan to place all banners of your rotator in one directory on your server then setup this
base address here. Then you may choose only the banner file for each banner - this file will be looked
in the base banner directory.
- Show banners from. The banners are either shown from the hard disk or form the Internet. When
editing your banner rotator it is comfortable to show your banner from the hard disk. Thus you may
easily choose different banner files (sources). Then you are ready and you have uploaded your
banner files on the Internet switch to "Internet" and the banners will be shown from the internet.
- Banner width and banner height. Set your banner rotator dimensions. You may choose dimensions in pixels
(example: 300px) or percent (example: 100%).
- "Add Banner at Top" and "Add Banner at Bottom" buttons. Use these two buttons to add banners to your banner rotator
wither at the top or at the bottom of the banner list. You may later rearrange the banners in the list.
- Show order. The order in which the banners will be shown. It is either sequential or random.
"Banner file on hard disk" section.
In this section you may choose the banner file (source) on your hard disk. Use the browse button to find
the desired banner file.
To visualize the banner from the hard disk select "Show banners from: Hard Disk" drop-down menu in the
General Settings for the Banner Rotator section described above.
"Banner file on Internet" section.
In this section you may choose the banner file (source) on the Internet. There are two checkboxes under the text field.
The first checkbox "Copy file name from File on hard disk" if checked will copy the file name from the above section.
The second checkbox "Use base URL" if checked will use the base URL set in the
General Settings for the Banner Rotator section described above.
To visualize the banner from the Internet select "Show banners from: Internet" drop-down menu in the
General Settings for the Banner Rotator section described above.
"Banner effect" section.
In this section you can setup the visual transition effect of the current banner.
There are 17 visual effects available. Chose the desired one using the drop-down menu.
After you choose a given effect, the settings for this particular effect will be displayed below.
If you later switch to another effect, the setting for the previous one will be remembered and
if you switch back the it you will have your settings displayed as you set them. In other words,
each effect remembers its own settings. If you choose to show a random effect (see
Banner Visualization and additional settings section) then
your setting for each effect will be used just like you have set them.
Use the "Test the effect" button to see the behavior of the chosen effect.
"Banner link settings" section.
In this section you specify the link for the banner if any. Only image banners may be set up with a link
if you use a webpage file as banner source you will need to set the link in the banner source
webpage file yourself.
"Banner visualization" section.
In this section you can observe the chosen banner and its effect. Also, here you may setup
the duration in seconds the banner will appear. You may choose to show a random effect
for the banner. You may shrink or stretch the banner image to fit the chosen dimensions.
And finally, you may setup the scrollbars of the current banner.
Banner Rotator Code tab
The Banner Rotator Code tab lets you install your banner rotator code to a desired web page of yours.
Banner Rotator Code tab -> Code section
Banner Rotator Code
Here you can Copy the Banner Rotator code using the "Select & Copy the Code" button. Check
the "Add Script Tags" checkbox to add script tags to the Banner Rotator Code. The edit box below will
show you the actual Banner Rotator Code. Use this section if you would like to install your
Banner Rotator code manually using your favorite HTML editor for example. It is preferred to
use the "Direct Installation" section to automatically perform this task (see below).
Banner Rotator Code tab -> Direct Installation section
If you would like to install your banner rotator code automatically to an existing webpage document, rather than
manually, you can use this section. Your banner rotator code will be installed right after the <body>
tag of your document. If you would like to choose a specific place for your banner rotator, after you
install it in your webpage file, open your webpage file using your favorite editor and move the one-line
banner code to the desired place. The one-line banner code that is installed automatically looks like this:
<script type='text/javascript' src='banner-ex1.js'>/*Banner Rotator ID section.ID=banner-ex1;Generator=Banner Rotator Workshop v1.4;*/</script>
Here "banner-ex1.js" is the banner rotator code .js file that was automatically created and saved in the directory
where your webpage file is located. You should upload this .js file to your server in the same directory where your
webpage file is uploaded.
Choose the HTML file to which to install the Banner Rotator Code
First of all, you have to select the webpage file from your hard disk where you would like to
install you Banner Rotator Code to. Use the "Browse" button for this purpose.
How to Install the Banner Rotator code?
You have two options:
- Install the code directly to the webpage file. The code will be inserted just after the
<BODY> tag.
- Place the Code in an External JS file. You can choose the name of the JS file. The code
will be placed there and in the webpage file only one line of code will be inserted just
after the <BODY> tag. Be sure to upload the JS file along with your webpage file
to your server.
In both cases, you may later edit your webpage file with your favorite editor and move the
banner rotator code to a desired location in your webpage file where you would like it to
appear.
Banner Rotator Code tab -> Banner Rotator Trigger Codes section
This section is not used at the moment. In the future updates of Banner Rotator Workshop
here you will be able to find triggering and control codes to manipulate your banners
from webpage events like mouse on-click events or from JavaScript.
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