vkBanner
vkBanner is a Plone Product that uses Shockwave Flash to show banner advertising. On vkBanner everything is customizable. You can change colors, styles, transitions, navigations, titles and so on, without touch the code. And more, you could use vkBanner for other uses too, like showing a photo gallery or presentation material. The limit is your creativity.
Current release
No stable release available yet.
Experimental releases
Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases
- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
Project Description
vkBanner is a feature rich ads visualization helper. It accepts banners in image format, supporting different parameters for visualization time, the link url to where the user goes after click and the target to set the window where the url will open.
It accepts 10 kinds to banner sizes. That sizes are the most common sizes used in the most know portal applications. The supported sizes are:
- Full Banner 468x60
- Half Banner 234x60
- Button Banner 120x60
- Mega Banner 728X90
- Skyscraper 120X600
- Skyscraper 160X600
- Square 250X250
- Square 300X250
- Billboard 550x200
It could be customized to show (or hide):
- titles for images
- navigation between images
It has some cool transitions effects too:
- Bubbles
- Gradient
- Curves
- Parallel bars
- Squares
- Diamonds
- Stars
- Turn off
- Diagonal blocks
- Irregular blocks
To apply vkBanner to your templates, what you need to do is define a simple pattern on it. On your website template (no matter how you did it), you should define position variables and use a macro to say that, on the exact position, banners configurated with the related position setting should show. Look the example bellow:
<div tal:define="vkPosition string:center">
<div metal:use-macro="here/portlet_vkBannerView/macros/portlet">
vkBanner CENTER
</div>
</div>
That's all. No complicated API at all.
Inspite of vkBanner is a feature rich visualization helper for banners, it is does not do any kind of click counting. In fact, you could do it by yourself in a lot of ways. vkBanner has a customizable link for that. What you would need is just hook a simple script there and after, do a redirect. Since there are dozens of ways to do it, that Product will not be concerned about it. Do it how you think that it works best for you.
