Zone types

OpenX supports a wide range of zone types. When you create a zone, you first select which type you want. This selection influences the types of zone invocation tags you can create to place in your web pages. This page describes the zone types and the tags they support.

A zone can be one of the following types:

• Banner, button or rectangle zones display banners as part of the content of the website and are the most standard zone type. With banner zones, you can choose any of the zone tag options.
• Interstitial or Floating DHTML zones are for ads such as splash pages, or ads that overlay on top of a web page which appear to 'float'. JavaScript is the only type of tag these zones support. Four options are available for this type of zone:
  • The Simple option creates a zone for a splash page that appears on top of a web page, and is typically set to disappear after a set period of time.
  • The Floater option creates a zone for an ad that moves across a web page to disappear at the far side, or which loops across either regularly or continually.
  • The Cursor option creates a zone for an ad that appears by the user's mouse cursor, and follows the cursor as it moves.
  • The Geocities option creates a zone for an ad that is similar to those which appear on Geocities pages. These banners appear at the top of a web page, and the user can collapse and close them.
• Popup zones show banners in a separate window that can appear either above or below (a 'pop-under') the browser window. JavaScript is the only tag type available for these zones.
• Text ad zones display text ads and can use JavaScript, Local Mode or XML-RPC tags.
• Email/Newsletter zones display banners in HTML emails. The No Cookie Image tag is the only ad tag you can use for these zones.

Each zone type is explained in more details in the relevant zone type page in this guide.