If you are creating a website and hope to earn revenue from advertisements, the primary area for your ads will probably be your banner. Banners will often rotate from one advertiser to the next. Some will choose simple graphics ads that link to their site, while others will want to provide you with a flash animation. In either case, adding the hyperlinks to the URL your client provides can be done in with web editing programs like Microsoft Expression Web, Dreamweaver or CoffeeCup.

Instructions

1

Load the flash banner ad your client provides onto your computer system, saving it to the same folder your website is in. Play it to make sure the client created it according to the size requirements for a banner on your site.

2

Go to Deconcept.com and download the SWFObject Javascript. Save it to the same folder as your website. Open the script in notepad and copy it.

3

Open your web page editor. Select “File” and click “Open.” In the dialog that pops up browse to the website you have been working on and open it. In the folders click on the “Index” page to open it.

4

Click inside your banner ad container layer. Then change the view to the HTML mode. Right-click where you see the cursor and select “Paste."

5

In the pasted script change the text that says “This text is replaced by flash movie” to “Download the Flash Player to view” so that visitors who don’t see the banner will know what to do. Change the name of the file from “Movie” to whatever the name of your file is. Then make the first number after this the same as the width of the animated banner and the second number the same as the height. Make the third number the version of flash that was used for the banner (your client will need to provide this).

6

Change the view back to design mode. Right-click inside the banner container and select “Add Hyperlink.” In the dialog that pops up paste in the URL link your client provided. Click “OK.” You can now publish the page.