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Banner Settings

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This page covers default settings related to banners. The Default banners section allows you to specify a global default banner in the event that OpenX is unable to connect to the database server, or if there is a problem with the database. The specified banner may also be displayed if there are no active matching banners available.

Please note that this feature is disabled by default (left blank) and can be overridden by zone chain settings. A default banner specified here is not logged for statistics-gathering.

The Allowed banner types section lets you specify the types of banner that can be used.

These settings determine which types of banner you can specify in the Administrator interface. Enabled banner types appear in the drop-down lists when adding banners, for example.

If you select Automatically alter HTML banners in order to force click tracking, then OpenX will alter HTML banners in order to allow clicks on HTML banners to be logged. This feature can be overridden on a per-banner basis in the Administrator interface when you add an HTML banner, by deselecting the Alter HTML to enable tracking of Clicks checkbox.

Note: Google Adsense is an easy way to display Google text or image ads and is popular among OpenX users.

With the Alter HTML to enable tracking of clicks option selected, OpenX can track Adsense clicks by visitors who use Internet Explorer (IE 6 & 7), Firefox and Opera (9) in Windows. In fact, the HTML in this case is not altered; instead Adsense ads are automatically detected and handled as a special case, using Javascript methods.