This document describes step-by-step how to set up Entropy Banner on a web page using cPanel. Entropy Banner is a program which allows you to randomly display different banners images on your web site in the same place. This allows different vistors to see different banners and allows repeat visitors see a different banner each time they visit. A different banner will show each time someone visits a page that uses Entropy Banner. You can set a different web address for each banner to link to.
Here is an example. Let's say you have 3 banner images named banner1.jpg, banner2.jpg and banner3.jpg. You want to have banner1.jpg link to http://www.website1.com, banner2.jpg link to http://www.website2.com and banner3.jpg link to http://www.website3.com/somepage.html. You then create a web page on your site named mywebpage.html which uses Entropy Banner. When someone visits mywebpage.html on your site, Entropy Banner will randomly select one of the banner images and display it on the page. When someone clicks the banner, they will be redirected to the web site that is associated with it (i.e. banner1.jpg is displayed and the person who clicks on it is taken to http://www.website1.com). The next person who visits mywebpage.html might see banner2.jpg or banner3.jpg depending on what Entropy Banner randomly selects. This is a perfect way to advertise different things to different people on one web page.
Below are the instructions for using cPanel to set up Entropy Banner.
Step 1: Open your cPanel.
Step 2: Once you are logged in, click the 'CGI Center' icon under the 'Software / Services' menu.
Step 3: You are now at the 'CGI Center' screen. Here you will see a list of pre-installed CGI scripts. Click the 'Entropy Banners' link from the list. This link is at the very bottom of the list.
Step 4: You are now at the 'Entropy Banners' screen where you will upload your banners and set the addresses each of banner will link to. You can also designate a priority for each banner. First you need to add banners to the rotation.
Step 5: Click the 'Add Banners' button located on this screen. This will take you to a screen which allows you to browse your hard drive for banners and upload them to the server to be included in your rotation. Click the 'Browse' button next to one of the spaces to pull up the file browser. The file browser will let you look through your computer's hard drive for the banner you want to upload. There are enough spaces on this screen for you to include up to 12 banners.
Step 6: After you have added your banners, click the 'Upload' button and wait patiently for your banners to be uploaded to the server. After the files are uploaded, a new browser window will open confirming the success of the uploads. Check this over to see if there are any errors.
Step 7: If everything was successful, close this browser window.
Step 8: Next, you need to set a link address and a priority for each banner. Click your browser's back button once to go back to the 'Entropy Banners' screen (the one with the 'Add Banner(s)' and 'Modify Rotation' buttons).
Step 9: Click the 'Modify Rotation' button. You will be taken to a screen which displays each of the banners you added along with some options for each image. Where it says 'Priority' select Low, Medium or High. The higher the priority of a banner, the more often that banner will be displayed.
Step 10: After you have set a priority, click the 'Save' button and wait for the confirmation screen to come up.
Step 11: Close the confirmation screen after checking it for any errors which might have occurred.
Step 12: Use the blank space to the right of where it says 'Linked to:' to enter a web address for the banner to link to. This is the address where the person who clicks the banner will be redirected.
Step 13: After you have entered the address, click the 'Save' button and wait for the confirmation screen to come up.
Step 14: Close the confirmation screen after checking it for any errors which might have occurred. Once you have done this for each image, you are finished.
Step 15: Copy and paste the following code to the web page which is supposed to have the banner rotation:
<!--#exec cmd="cgi-bin/entropybanner.cgi"-->
If you are having trouble setting up this script or if you receive an error, please contact support.
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