H e r c u l e s & X e n a
B a n n e r E x c h a n g e P r o g r a m
- What is a Banner Exchange?
The Banner Exchange is a web program which takes your banner and displays it on other sites around the Xenaverse. In return, theirs are showed on your pages.
The system works in this way: When somebody loads one of your pages which has the banner exchange, they recieve a view of a banner from another site, and in return you get a credit for your own banner.
A credit is a view on some other site when a viewer loads their page.
- What are the banner requirements?
Banners must be 400 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall. The file size of the images must be 10K or less. Image file sizes over 10K will be deleted out of the exchange by the banner master on site.
Also, Animated Banners are strictly forbidden.
- How do I get more Credits for my banner?
Your banner will be shown on more sites if your own banner code is hit more often. The easiest way to facilitate this is to put your banner code on more than one page. Indeed, you can do this.
If you paste your code on multiple pages, you MUST pay attention to the two XX areas in the code. You must replace the XX with a unique word or name on each unique page.
- What happens if I run out of credits?
Hopefully the program will do it's thing correctly and will send us a note if your credits run out. However.... if you notice your credits count getting close to only 500 credits left, please drop Dixie a note and we'll get you some more credits.
- How many times are these banners seen on the web?
As of May 28, 2000, about 10,000 times a day.
- Can I use more than one banner?
Yes! You can use up to three banners and each time your banner is set to be displayed, the banner CGI will randomly determine which one to use. This is helpful to people who don't want their banner to get stale, or wish to try different concepts!
To add a new banner to rotation, go to Edit your site form on the front page and where it shows the URL of your banner, on the next line down enter a new banner URL. This MUST be the full address right to that banner... Not to the HTML document it might be supposed to be viewed on, get it?
Example: http:\\www.whoever.com\myxenasite\mybanner.gif
If we find out the banner you have added is over 10K, we will have to scrap it... so please check your file size.
- Is there money Involved?
No, this is a totally free thing...
- Banner Display CGI
The tending and maintenance of the Herk / Xena Banner Exchange is by Dixie Harrison of Xena Online Resources
The actual program was writen in Perl by Darryl C. Burgdorf. WebAdverts Scripts
- Who are members?
Over 100 (at this writing May 2000) of various size and stature.
- How can I get a cool Xena Online Resources Search Engine form for my page?
O.K. <G> Not really a question. But it is cool! This form will allow you to get results from the Xena Online Resources Search Engine right from your webpage. Here's what it looks like and here's the code. You can now call a remote search of the engine from your website.
Here is the code
Remote Search Form Text