Post #174995 by hanford_lemoore on Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:19 PM

Thanks Dogbytes ...

I for a long time have promised banner-space for many users on TC to promote their stuff for free. There was no "banner system", so the best I could do was put up an image and then after a while, take it down and put up the next one. As Tiki Central grew in popularity there became a backlog of people waiting for their banners to run. A perfect example of this was the NW Tiki Crawl and Chicago Exotica. Both events were coming up quickly, but only one could be displayed. Plus, there were other members patiently waiting in the wings for me to list their banners like I had promised.

It occurred to me that a banner engine would kill 3 birds with one stone: it would allow multiple ads to run on TC at a time (via cycling), charging users for ads would reduce the number of ads at any given time, and it would make me some extra dough.

I want to make sure that area at the top of Tiki Central continues to work for both advertisers, and for the people who use TC everyday. To that end I only want banners for things I think Tiki Centralites will want to see, and I don't want so many ads in the system that it feels diluted or that Advertisers don't feel their banner is being seen.

Please continue to give me feedback on how this is working.

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