My Banner 1.0

Do you want to EARN MONEY using your Dolphin script? If "YES" - this plug-in is exactly for you. This AJAX based plug-in allows you to provide(sell) advertising service to members of your site. Look: You are the owner of a good and well known site. You have been working too hard and now your members love your site. They come to your site communicate to each other, send messages, upload, record and share their video and so on. Now your site has a lot of traffic and some of your members want to put their advertisement on your site. What do they do? They purchase advertisement and it will be shown on the page they choose(home page, profile pages, member accounts, etc. Picture 7). You plan is fulfilled. You start to EARN MONEY. :) Two types of banners could be created: text based and image based. 1. Text based banner. (Picture 1). User would be able to write some text and title for it. The banner could be pointed to some link. Also the profile's thumbnail would be attached to the banner. This type of banner looks like the user says something to the others and allow view it following the provided link. 2. Image based banner. (Picture 2). It's the common banner represented with an image and a link associated with it. The other useful feature is that the user would be able to choose the pages where the banner would be displayed. In the same case, you(as administrator) would be able to set different prices for different pages. For example, you may make the ads more expensive on the home, account and profile pages, because usually these pages are the most visited by site members. To attract attention of your members to banner purchasing you would be able to set a flexible system of discounts for each page separately(Picture 4). All of them will be displayed on the banner purchasing page. Also your members would be able to use the build-in 'calculator' to get the final price for their advertising campaign. (Picture 3). The other useful capabilities: 1. Preview. Your users will be able to view how their banner will look like before purchasing it. 2. Up coming advertisement. It means, that your users could choose start date for each banner. 3. Purchase a number of ads at the same time and manage them on the special page("My Account" menu -> "My Banners") Take a look at Picture 5. 4. Statistics. Users would be able to track the number of impressions and the number of clicks for each banner he has. 5. Edit the banner during the advertising campaign. Even change the type of the banner. You may manage the plug-in's settings via Dolphin administration panel -> plug-ins -> ALV My Banner. The plug-in administration panel consists of 3 parts 1. Main settings of the plug-in. 2. Pricing for each page with capability to create necessary discounts. 3. Browse. It allows to browse users' banners. Also the plug-in allows to use pre and post moderation for users' banners. In this case you would be able to approve/disapprove the banners in this section. Banner can be deleted at all if it breaks the privacy and policy of your site. Also when you browse the site as administrator and see some 'bad' banner you would be able to disapprove/delete it immediately from the page you have seen it. (Picture 6) 4. The position of advertising block on each page could be changed using default Dolphin's page builder.
 
Take a look at the screenshots, they should help you to understand how the module is working
1. Text based banner

 
2. Image based banner

 
3. Create and purchase banner page

 
4. The banner on My Banners page.

 
5. Admin panel. Settings, price/discount creation.

 
6. Admin panel. Manage banners.

 
7. Home page with client's banner

NOTE. The latest version can be found here.
 
You may test it on our demo site http://www.dolphin70.aqbsoft.com
And if you have some questions feel free to ask.

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Note. If you are interesting in similar module (app) for UNA, feel free to take a look at our Banners app which is fully compatible with the latest version of UNA script.
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