Types

OpenX supports a wide range of zone types. When you create a zone you must select which type you want. This selection affects the types of zone invocation tags you can create to place in your web pages. Here we will discuss zone types and the tags they support.

A zone can be one of the following types:

• Banner, Button or Rectangle: the most common zone type. This zone type allows you to choose from any of the zone tag options.
• Interstitial or Floating DHTML: these types of zone are for splash pages, or ads that overlay a web page and appear to 'float'. These zone types only support JavaScript tags. This type of zone offers four options:
  • Simple: creates a zone for a splash page that overlays a web page. Splash pages tend to be set to disappear after a certain amount of time
  • Floater: this option creates a zone for an ad that moves across a web page and disappears at the far side, or one which loops across it either regularly or continuously
  • Cursor: creates a zone for an ad that appears beside the user's mouse cursor, following the cursor as it moves
  • Geocities: creates a zone for an ad similar to those on Geocities pages. These ads appear at the top of a page and can be collapsed and closed by the user
• Text ad: these zones are for displaying text ads. They can use JavaScript, Local Mode or XML-RPC tags.
• Email/Newsletter zone: these zones display banners in HTML mails. The follwoing restrictions apply:
  • only banners from campaigns with specific start and end dates can link to an email zone
  • you cannot link a campaign to an email zone; you must link directly to a banner
  • you cannot rotate ads in an email newsletter zone
  • the No Cookie Image Tag is the only ad tag that can be used in these zones