User:Manolinux

Openx support

Rationale

I hate ads.

But if we are going to have a server with thousands of users all day uploading pics, we need to have income.

Thinking federated, people who wish to run their web server may wish to do it for money.

What is OpenX?

Previously known as openAds, it is a software that manages and serves banners and other kind of ads. It is open source, of course (though there is a proprietary version too).

How does it works?

You need to have openx installed somewhere, or use openx hosted, a multiuser site. There, you define Advisers, Campaigns (inside Advisers) and banners (inside Campaigns) on one hand, and on the other hand you define Websites, and Zones in them. Then, you put some banners inside each zone.

Each zone has an invocation code, a piece of HTML you put where you want in your website. The invocation code makes the banner appear, and do the neccesary accounting.