Beginner's Guide

BANNERS
The banner component provides the option to display advertising banners on your site. A banner can
consist of graphics or custom HTML code. Every time your site is accessed, a different banner will be
displayed from your banner administration. You can click on these banners and they are linked to the
client's site. The banner component offers client, category, and banner administration as well as detailed
analyses. I will guide you through a complete real life example in this chapter.
If you would like to sell advertisements on your website, there are three things you will need: clients,
banners and pages on your website to display the banners. Oh, I forgot one. You also need traffic on
your site. The more traffic, the better.
Depending on the contract terms you have with your clients, you may also need a tracking overview
with all the impressions and clicks.
Let's begin with the client. I live in a tourist area and local businesses want to advertise their services.
Joomla offers yearly, monthly, weekly, daily and unlimited subscriptions. You can configure the default
subscription type in Components - Banner – Options.
My client would like to pay a monthly fee to appear on all pages with three different rotating
banners. I add the client in Components - Banner - Clients - New and fill in the form (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Adding a client
Before I can create individual banners, I have to create a banner category first. The categories are
very useful because later on in the banner module, I can choose from which client and which category a
banner should be displayed (Components - Banner - Categories).
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