images above ads.. THE NEXT LEVEL

Can any one post the code of working site? I went to Critters site and saw his source code and did nothing wrong other then adding my own images and placed the imagelistB.txt in root directory and rest in images folder including the swf flash file!
and Whats that time included in the code? any idea?
Thanks!

 

Ditto Here. I can't get it to work on my site. Im gonna tweek it around some more.

Yes. I keep thinking it has something to do with that time code in the .txt file-- like it shouldnt be there.

Question: It's ok to adjust the image sizes, right? Thats the only other thing in the script i changed in the proper spaces. my images are 160x65 instead of 140x100 like in your code.

I'd like to get this working on my site.

 

If you have a problem check the following points:

1. What is the size of the swf file ?? it should be > 2 kb

if not download http:///http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/images/adsV1.swf

2. imageListB.txt should be in the root of your website.

if you're testing in lets say http://localhost/test/test.htm your root is http://localhost

an example of my txt file you can find at http://www.hobbydoos.nl/imageListB.txt.

3 the adsv1.swf should be in image directory

 

I checked and double checked everything, still not working -- here's my code below---

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<table border="0" cellspadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="728">

<tr>
<td width="728">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="730" height="70" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/images/adsV1.swf?imageList=/imageListB.txt&imageWidth=160&imageHeight=65&n=6/18/2005 12:46:25 PM" />
<param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="BGCOLOR" value="343242">


<embed src="/images/adsV1.swf?imageList=/imageListB.txt&imageWidth=160&imageHeight=65&n=6/18/2005 6:46:25 PM" width="730" height="70" align="middle" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" bgcolor="343242" />

</object>

Everything seems to be where it should be. Maybe editing the size of the images broke it or something. If someone sees something wrong, let me know.

 

WOW, Well I better get this zipped up and documented soon Errrr, not sure if putting each image on a different line in the txt file works.. to the guy who wanted to pull random images from a folder, write an ASP or PHP script to pull out 4 at random and write out in the same format as the text file, then just use the script name when embeding the flash movie ie.. images.swf?imagelist=/randomimage.txt

the swf does NOT have to be in the same folder as the images.. but the path to the images must start with a / in the txt file...

errrr, so much to say, will just put it in the zip

 

yirmumah

There is an error in your imagelist. in line 5 there is missing a &

http://www.yirmumah.djcoffman.com/imagelistb.txt

&i1=/images/piggys/A.jpg
&i2=/images/piggys/B.jpg
&i3=/images/piggys/C.jpg
&i4=/images/piggys/D.jpg
i5=/images/piggys/E.jpg
&i6=/images/piggys/F.jpg
&i7=/images/piggys/G.jpg
&i8=/images/piggys/H.jpg
&i9=/images/piggys/I.jpg
&i10=/images/piggys/J.jpg
&i11=/images/piggys/K.jpg
&i12=/images/piggys/L.jpg
&end

 

Since I'm using a theme on my main page, my actual root folder is sourced from a plugin folder. So my root would look more like- http://yirmumah.djcoffman.com/wp-content/themes/S2a/ -- it has it's own images folder, header, etc..

 

Nice effort everyone, I think the work done by you all is amazing.

Thanks everyone.

 

actually you guys can use javascript to achieve that as well. goto dynamicdrive.com and search for it. There are a variety of better looking style.

 

Yes you can do it with a Dhtml script, see the available scripts here

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/index.html

But they aren't supported on every browser
mostly IE5+, Opera 7+

 

Hmm, interesting stuff, looks great

Hopefully you're already aware of it, but your site seems a bit temperamental - I can only connect maybe 50% of the time...

 

critters,

you took down the flash rotator. was the CTR suffering or are you reworking it?

 

Yeah-- I was wondering the same thing myself when I noticed it was gone.

 

Yes Critters what happened

 

Sorry ppl, didnt update you....
my earnings went down, in a panic I swaped back to the image ads.

After leaving it a bit I went back over the numbers.. the drop was down to a low CPM, the number of clicks and the CTR were slightly up so it was not the fault of the animation... I just have not got round to putting it back.

The increase in CTR (going from static images to the anim) was minimal, so I see little point in using it on new sites over static images. I am not sure when I will get a chance to finish it up and zip it up, but when I do I will post here first

To new people reading this.... I still think that if you are using the leaderboard ad unit, and you do not have images above it you are loosing out on many $$. Look at this topic:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=17104&highlight=thanks+to+dp+members

 

I was just wondering, how about using the animated gifs... I will attempt the same on my site perhaps.

 

Actually, I like that idea a lot, especially since it won't be a problem for even the oldest and most outdated web browser to display. Post a URL when you implement it, won't you?

AmCy

 

You know I may be the only person that saw a decrease in CTR after implementing the "images above ads" strategy on http://www.vacan.com. I'm going to give it another week before I pull the plug, however, since my traffic numbers have been crazy the last few days and I'm thinking my results may be biased.

The animation effect you have created is pretty cool, Critters.

 

well if your visitors have been "crazy" look at your CTR.. has that changed? Animated gifs would be ok, but fading from one still to another will make BIG file sized gifs.. also they would not be in sync. But would work on all browsers.

 

yup, for visitors with slow connection(dial-up), the animated GIF probably do not show up before the ads.