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Adding Adsense Skyscraper To IPB Forum

Started by glen , Jun 12 2005 01:47 AM

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#1 glen

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Posted 12 June 2005 - 01:47 AM

I previously had the google ads displayed as a column on the left side of the page as a skyscraper (which is 160 pixels wide and 600 pixels high).

This is the method I used -

Go to Skins & Templates then Skin Manager and then select the skin you wish to modify (perhaps create a child skin if you have not done so already) then select Edit Root Skin Board Header & Footer Wrapper -

The Header and Footer will look like this - 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head> 
<title><% TITLE %></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
<% GENERATOR %> 
<% CSS %> 
<% javascript %> 
</head> 
<body>
<div id="ipbwrapper">
<% BOARD HEADER %>
<% MEMBER BAR %>
<% NAVIGATION %>
<!--IBF.NEWPMBOX-->
<% BOARD %>
<% BOARD FOOTER %>
<% STATS %> 
<% COPYRIGHT %>
</div>
</body> 
</html>

Add the following code (in red) -

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<% TITLE %>

<% GENERATOR %>
<% CSS %>
<% javascript %>



<% BOARD HEADER %>
<% MEMBER BAR %>



     
     
 
[Adsense Skyscraper Code Here]

     
<% NAVIGATION %>
<!--IBF.NEWPMBOX-->
<% BOARD %>
<% BOARD FOOTER %>
     


<% STATS %>
<% COPYRIGHT %>


If you want the Skyscraper on the right simply rearrange the code as follows -

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  <% NAVIGATION %>
  <!--IBF.NEWPMBOX-->
  <% BOARD %>
  <% BOARD FOOTER %>
  		[Adsense Skyscraper Code Here]

     

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers, Glen :)

#2 rahulw

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Posted 06 July 2005 - 09:31 AM

tell me does having a leaderboard or having a skyscrapper makes a difference in IPB forum ??

i am asking this becoz u had both of them at your forum !!
so please tell which one is better ?

#3 glen

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Posted 06 July 2005 - 09:24 PM

best results will be to change from time to time to avoid your users developing "ad blindness". so far on this site the skyscraper is slightly better. but i am not getting a lot of traffic to make a fair assessment.

cheers, glen

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Posted 10 October 2005 - 09:03 PM

dosnt work 4 me....it makes it correctly but it moves my forum all the way to the right...

#5 glen

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Posted 11 October 2005 - 01:00 AM

which version of IPB are you using?

i won't claim to be able to solve every templating problem since i am sort of muddling through this myself... but i thought it would be fairly fool proof because all it does is wrap the <% NAVIGATION %>, <!--IBF.NEWPMBOX-->, <% BOARD %>, <% BOARD FOOTER %> sections inside a table and it puts those four items in one column and creates another column for the ad.

maybe there is some issue with the CSS stylesheets that is causing the weird behaviour. sorry i can't be more helpful.

its a bit hard to comment without seeing the site.

cheers, glen :)

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Posted 16 October 2005 - 02:33 PM

i am using an IPB 2.0.4......

ohh and b/t/w...my site is www.xxxxxxxxx

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 02:08 AM

this is the result

http://www.shbabonli...php?showtopic=7

works fine on my other forums!!

#8 glen

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 03:27 AM

i emailed you the advice re: the TOS.

with the canada site i would ask your skinner (Sam) to make the simple table mod for you. i don't think he would charge you for that.....at least i hope not! its a nice skin by the way! :)

cheers, glen

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Posted 15 June 2007 - 11:30 PM

something weird happened to the above code when i upgraded IPB. it converted text to raw html and processed it.

to wrap a table around the <% BOARD %> tag just do this

column on the left:

<table>
<tr>
<td width="150">
GOOGLE SKYSCRAPER CODE HERE
</td>
<td>
<% BOARD %>
 </td>
 </tr>
</table>

column on the right:

<table>
 <tr>
 <td>
 <% BOARD %>
  </td>
 <td width="150">
  GOOGLE SKYSCRAPER CODE HERE
  </td>
  </tr>
 </table>

just remember to change "150" to whatever width you like.

#10 Craw

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Posted 08 September 2007 - 06:11 AM

What if I want to put a skyscraper just on the index page of the forums? Then when people enter the different forum sections the skyscraper won't show?

#11 glen

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Posted 08 September 2007 - 07:42 PM

it probably can be done by editing the HTML template under the "Board Index" section.

i gave it a shot by adding 

<table>
<tr>
<td>

to the top of "PageTop"

and then I added 

</td>
<td width="150">
  GOOGLE SKYSCRAPER CODE HERE
  </td>
  </tr>
</table>

to "end_all_cats"

#12 Craw

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 01:50 AM

Thanks, Glen.

I'll give this a shot.
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