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Customizing
the Banners on Your Site
Banner
ads keep us free--if we charge for advertising, we don't
need to charge you! We do, however, want banner ads to integrate
smoothly into your site. You can customize the banners on
your site by following these three tips:
- Warning!
Don't ever . . .
- Getting
rid of multiple banners
- Customizing
the position and appearance of banners
1. Warning!
Don't ever . . .
Run
with scissors. (But you already knew that.) You should also
never copy the source code from your Web site page as you
are viewing it in your Web browser and then upload it to
your site.
Why
not? Freeservers banner ads are inserted automatically into
your pages as they are displayed in your Web browser. This
means that the source code you see in your Web browser contains
the codes for displaying the banner ad. If you copy that
code and upload it to your Web site, you will end up with
multiple banners on your page.
2. Getting
ride of multiple banners.
Several
problems could cause multiple banners to appear on your
pages. If you find multiple banners on your page, do the
following:
- Make
sure you only have one <BODY> tag in each page
- Make
sure that you use relative
links for links within your site
- Make
sure that you do not have Freeservers banner codes in
your pages.
For
more information on how to eliminate multiple banners from
your pages, click here.
3.
Customizing the position and appearance of banners
Many
of you have asked for a way to customize the appearance
of banners. Our programmers have created a way!
On pages
that don't use frames,
banner ads are centered on your page by default. However,
if you're willing to do some simple HTML work, you can now
have the banner ad align to either the left or the right.
To do this, include the BANNER="right" or BANNER="left"
attribute in your page's <BODY> tag. Be sure to include
the BANNER attribute in your existing <BODY>
tag. You must not have more than one <BODY> tag per
page or you could get multiple banner ads on your page.
For example:
<BODY
BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF BANNER="right">
This
example would align the banner with the right side of the
browser window.
If you
do use frames on your page, you have some different options.
By default, on a frames-based Web site, the banner is placed
in a frame at the top of the window. However, you can have
the frame at the bottom of the window instead. To do this,
include the BANNER="bottom" attribute in your
<FRAMESET> tag. For example:
<FRAMESET
ROWS="100,*" BANNER="bottom">
You
can also change the background color of the banner frame
from the default color (black). Just include the attribute
BANNERCOLOR="[hexadecimal number for desired color]"
in your <FRAMESET> tag. For example:
<FRAMESET
ROWS="100,*" BANNERCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
This
example would set the banner ad frame's background color
to white.
Our
programmers are working on other ways to customize the appearance
of banners, such as background images for the banner frame.
We will let you know when they are ready. Until then, have
fun implementing these tips.
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