Is there a way to Rotate Ads in sidebar?

I have a small picture ad in my sidebar, I want to show off more than one ad with a different link on each one so can't just do an animated picture. What can I do?

At the moment all I'm using to do it is

<div id="sidebar-ads">
<a href="AD LINK"><img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/mytheme/images/banners/Ad.png" alt="AD ALT TEXT" width="300px" height="250px" /></a>

</div>

Code (markup):

 

I have been doing that but will look again

 

If you want i can help you ... to make such a script. How many ads do you want to rotate? you want random rotate no ?

 

Thanks, but as we are a non-profit organization, we do not have the funds available to pay for such services.

The Size of the ad is width="300px" height="250px"
We want to rotate 4 ads at this time but want to be able to customize this
Don't really mind about order number

We don't have all 4 ads finished yet though

Maybe someone could help write up a template (or what ever works - I'm no programmer) in exchange for a backlink on our site

 

If you just want to rotate 4 (or however many) ad blocks you could just use a bit of JavaScript like this. It will randomly pick one of 4 ads, with an equal probability of picking each one.

<script type="text/javascript">
var random = Math.random();
if (random < 0.25) {
// put ad1 here
}
else if (random <0.5) {
// put ad2 here
}
else if (random <0.75) {
// put ad3 here
}
else {
// put ad4 here
}
</script>

 

Thanks for that! In the ad section, do I just insert the images full link? Can I also put in a different hyperlink for each ad? Thanks again!

 

You'll need to use document.write to output your links.

e.g.

<script type="text/javascript">
var random = Math.random();
if (random < 0.25) {
<!--
document.write('<a href="http://youlink...">yourlink</a>');
//-->
}

 

Here is easy banner rotator

http://www.htmlbasix.com/banner.shtml

Just put the site URLs and banner locations and it will generate code for you.

 

Thanks so much for this will give it a go

 

Try max banner ads http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mba/

I haven't tried it yet, but seems to be the best I could find...I will be implementing it on one of my sites in the next few weeks.

 

I couldn't figure the document.write option so I went with this generator and it worked well thanks

 

^ I am glad it solved your problem