FlexBanner
- Yes
New Feature! Let your customers see the statistics for their banner from the front end.
Single installer for component and module.
FlexBanner is a powerful banner advert management system. You can add banners for new clients or links from one screen - no more multi-step banner adding. You can also restrict banners to particular articles, categories or sections, as well as all the default Joomla restrictions (using the itemid system). It also works well with Google AdSense code - copy the Google code into the custom code box, and it just works.
Supports different banners for different languages! Perfect for use with Joom!fish.
German translation now also available courtesy of Mao PU.
Spanish translation available.
Chinese translation available at http://www.joomlagate.com/.
Spanish translation available at http://www.eldiadezamora.es/descarga/es-ES.com_flexbanner.rar
Swedish translation available at http://www.joomlasverige.se/joomla/nyheter/115-svensk-oversattning-flexbanner courtesy of JOKR Solutions
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1.6.18 Corrects install issue.
1.6.17 Corrected bug that stopped selection of multiple items.
1.6.16 Corrected front end stats display.
1.5.68 Corrected error introduced in 1.5.67
1.5.67/1.6.15 Added module view to allow use of template overrides
1.6.14 Includes live update
1.5.66/1.6.13 Display now shows more information about impressions and clicks.
1.5.65/1.6.12 Now counts impressions for Custom Code ads
You should install both the plugin and module. Then simply give it a try, and most chances you'll manage to use it. I spent about 20 minutes reading the extension's support forum to understand some of the issues.
Thank you Andrew.
Thanks for your review. I'm sorry you couldn't get FlexBanner working but I can assure you hundreds of people are using it successfully. If you had been prepared to engage more fully in the forum I'm sure we could have helped you succeed.
It's a shame you felt the need to start throwing round threats sooner rather than later but that's your choice and, as I don't charge for the component, really no problem to me. I do think a more positive attitude would have helped and if anybody out there wants to write a guide I'd be happy to publish it. I know the documentation isn't thorough but I also know that I'm very close to the project and that makes it quite difficult to write without making assumptions.
This is not a simple component, despite your description, so perhaps it needs a little thought before use.
So Beware!!!!
Perhaps your guess was wrong! There are hundreds of people happily using FlexBanner and nobody has ever complained of an issue of this kind. As long as you downloaded it from joomlacode.org via this site I'm sure there isn't a problem.
In future you might want to try contacting the developer of a component before throwing around accusations like this. You'd have seen we have a busy support forum that gives users advice and support.
I'm sorry if you are having problems but please don't jump to conclusions.
Does it serve the bots via Javascript? No
Iframes? No
Filtration of IPs/User Agents via PHP? No
Accurate Results?
Try and it let me know what your client thinks.
Obviously the clicks are off, you'd think the impressions would be a little more accurate.
Wrong:
Impressions are tallied immediately upon execution of script rather than when a banner has completed downloading.
So even if the banner itself was never displayed on the user's browser, the module itself will tally another impression.
Hi Eric. Sorry you didn't like it. Perhaps you should try the latest version.
That may be nice but it isn't what this module is. It makes no claim to work with other banner modules and I think it is a little harsh to criticize it for something it doesn't claim to do.
It would be great if the component allowed you to view all the banners a particular client has and clicks and impressions - like a report for each client.
Great job!
Thanks for the positive feedback. I see this as my way of paying back Joomla! and the community for their efforts.
Thus I think that this component is missing some of the grate stuff such as:
Show banners based on banner id
show 1 or 2 3 4... banners
show banners horizontally or vertically
Any way good effort!
I think you are confusing different ways of working with different functionality. You can achieve much of what you want with FlexBanner.
I'll, take a look at Artbanner and see if there is anything we can use here.
Thanks for your comments.
All fair points. I'm working on these issues. I inherited this project when I updated the 1.0 version and it has needed a lot of work just to get where we are. The banner upload issue is a legacy of starting from the core Joomla banner manager which works that way!
I do want to improve the ID selection in the module as soon as possible because it causes users a lot of grief. I've also had other requests to improve the content filtering to use components and other useful selections which I will be looking at shortly.
Thank you for the feedback. All these improvements will follow when paying work doesn't get in the way too much!
