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"The age of the banner ad is dead" shouts a self-proclaimed online marketer. "Banner ads represent a bad return on investment" writes another. The truth of the matter is that banner ad's aren't dead, my friend. In this article Tim shows us how to create a banner management application that lets us add nifty MySQL-blobbed, two part drop-down banners to our sites. If you run your own site then you can't afford not to read this tutorial!

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By: Tim Pabst
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May 20, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. · Make Your Own Cool Drop Down Ad's
  2. · How drop down ads work
  3. · The admin.php script
  4. · The admin.php script (contd.)
  5. · Viewing, expanding and collapsing a banner
  6. · Tracking the number of click-thrus
  7. · Conclusion

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Before I wrap this article up, let me just mention the best way to use this script. The top banner should contain information about their product/service, and the bottom a special offer or discount that will encourage the users to expand the banner again once it closes up. Although quick to implement, these banners can add a lot of power and flexibility to your advertising tool kit.

In this article we've seen how to go from having no ad system, to having one that implements drop down images and can be managed totally from the browser. Of course the code described in this article is flexible, and you should feel free to change it to fit in with the layout and functionality of your web site.
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