aspen_rcj
05-06-2000, 07:48 AM
I would like to have someone write a banner slideshow script with the following requirements:
1) Banners must be displayed in sequence and activated on a timed basis, NOT activated by page reloads or page refresh. Even if the web page being viewed is idle, banners will still rotate.
2) My site will feature a thumbnail gallery. I need a script that will control two (2) banner locations, one above and one below the thumbnail gallery. I don't know if it makes any difference but the site is constructed using HTML tables (not frames) and the banners are contained within these tables.
3) Each banner must be "clickable" to a different site URL,
4) A nice feature would be to have an description line under each banner that could be easily edited for size, color, and font.
5) Now the hard part... keep in mind that each of the 2 banner locations consists of 5 different banners. I've numbered the banners above the thumbnail gallery as 1-5 and the banners below 6-10. As an example, let's say the user viewing banner "3" in the location above the thumbnail gallery and banner "8" in the location below the gallery. Now the user decides to click on the thumbnail image and is taken to a larger (downloadable) picture of the thumbnail image. When the user returns to the gallery page, all the scripts I've seen would restart the banner sequence from the beginning, that being banner "1" above and banner "6" below the thumbnail gallery. In this scenario the user missed seeing banner "4" and "5" above and banner "9" and "10" below the gallery. I want a script written so that when the user returns to the gallery page they see banner "4" above and banner "9" below. I've been told that meta refreshes and pragma are not reliable. I had one script written somehow utilizing cookies for the refresh. This seemed to work very well in IE 5.0 but after about 4 or 5 refreshes, it would always crash Netscape 4.7.
6) I have been told that a possible work-around for the above problem would be to use a pop-up window when the user clicks on the thumbnail to view or download the larger picture. I found a good sample of this at: http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/thumbnail-viewer.html
7) The script must be written so that it is able to be embedd within the HTML page.
8) Also found a good script that saves banner image preloading time at: http://wsabstract.com/script/script2/incrementslide.shtml
I purchased and had WebAdverts (supposedly the "premier" banner rotation script) installed but it also restarts the banner sequence from the first position.
For view the sample script utilizing the cookie theory: http://www.perfect10online.com/sample.html
For a price quote or questions: pollock@bigplanet.com
Thanks for the time you took to read this rather lengthy explanation!
1) Banners must be displayed in sequence and activated on a timed basis, NOT activated by page reloads or page refresh. Even if the web page being viewed is idle, banners will still rotate.
2) My site will feature a thumbnail gallery. I need a script that will control two (2) banner locations, one above and one below the thumbnail gallery. I don't know if it makes any difference but the site is constructed using HTML tables (not frames) and the banners are contained within these tables.
3) Each banner must be "clickable" to a different site URL,
4) A nice feature would be to have an description line under each banner that could be easily edited for size, color, and font.
5) Now the hard part... keep in mind that each of the 2 banner locations consists of 5 different banners. I've numbered the banners above the thumbnail gallery as 1-5 and the banners below 6-10. As an example, let's say the user viewing banner "3" in the location above the thumbnail gallery and banner "8" in the location below the gallery. Now the user decides to click on the thumbnail image and is taken to a larger (downloadable) picture of the thumbnail image. When the user returns to the gallery page, all the scripts I've seen would restart the banner sequence from the beginning, that being banner "1" above and banner "6" below the thumbnail gallery. In this scenario the user missed seeing banner "4" and "5" above and banner "9" and "10" below the gallery. I want a script written so that when the user returns to the gallery page they see banner "4" above and banner "9" below. I've been told that meta refreshes and pragma are not reliable. I had one script written somehow utilizing cookies for the refresh. This seemed to work very well in IE 5.0 but after about 4 or 5 refreshes, it would always crash Netscape 4.7.
6) I have been told that a possible work-around for the above problem would be to use a pop-up window when the user clicks on the thumbnail to view or download the larger picture. I found a good sample of this at: http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/thumbnail-viewer.html
7) The script must be written so that it is able to be embedd within the HTML page.
8) Also found a good script that saves banner image preloading time at: http://wsabstract.com/script/script2/incrementslide.shtml
I purchased and had WebAdverts (supposedly the "premier" banner rotation script) installed but it also restarts the banner sequence from the first position.
For view the sample script utilizing the cookie theory: http://www.perfect10online.com/sample.html
For a price quote or questions: pollock@bigplanet.com
Thanks for the time you took to read this rather lengthy explanation!