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WIAD supports a local list of ads to be served by a cue list
Ad cueing. Is turned on by default under ad settings, however it will not be used if in Ads Debug Mode.
You can deliver ads from any server that's publicly accessible in the world.This is achieved by informing WIAD to direct the candidate ad slot to a remote or local ad server to display the ad image or HTML data, filling an ad location. The ad sever can even be the same server as the wiad server but must direct to another port than 80 as WIAD uses that port for many internal and external operations. It is usually best to have your ad server on a different server than your WIAD server.
Determining what ad to be served on the viewers page can be determined by a local list of URL's and href (click links) set in your server as textual data pair tables. The tables represent a list of ads either html or image ads and the appropriate href link. WIAD will check these tables when it has an opportunity to display an ad, If you have a table with the ad size as its name and a set of links, WIAD will referrer to these tables of what ad to display next. Of course assuming you have local cueing turned on and not in Debug Mode. These settings are avail in the 1.1.1192 and up versions.
THe ad tables are in two different directory's, and each table name is determined by ad size. ie an ad for 728*90 is in a table under a table name of c:\wts\...\ads\ImgSizePairs\728_90.tbl. WAID does not make up the tables they are created by the system admin, however it will create the folders. It will be up to you to create the .tbl files. Each link in the table MUST link to a image or html page that is EXACTLY the size of the table name. Note each table must be moved from server to server as WIAD does not propagate information of these tables between servers.
Image Tables are set like this: The tables are in the format of adurl = clickurl as a complete http:// link. ie a 728 X 90 pixel image ad would have an entry of
http://www.wiad.net/wiad_728_90.jpg = http://www.wiad.net
the first url is of course a 728*90 image and the second entry is the link to WIAD.net,Sample Image Size Pairs
HTML Tables are set like this: The tables are in the format of pageurl = clickurl as a complete http:// link. ie an ad page with text and images that fit 728*90 pixels would have an entry of
http://www.wiad.net/wiad_728_90.htm = http://www.wiad.net
the first url is of course a web page and the second entry is the link to WIAD.net, note that the web page it self may have a href link on an imbedded image. Most of your ad pairs will be HTML as they are the most common ad types inserted.Sample HTML Size Pairs
Image ads can be any compatible image type you would expect your users to be able to view. WIAD always recommends .png files over .jpg and .gif since .png is the most common and public domain image type.
Each directory contains the tables for image ads and html ads. If no image ad is available for a candidate ad slot WIAD will attempt other means to fill a candidate slot.
Its very important that the image folder only contain tables with image links and that the HTML folder only contain tables that are MIME compliant HTML pages. And of course that the viewable links are only to images or html pages of that table name size. An incorrect entry will cause page display errors that are not traceable by WIAD. Click links can be any standard url.
WiAdServer has a tool to help create the pairs, From main window select "Tools>AdInsertions>Add HTML Ad Page to AdTablePairs. In this tool you past the url of an web page code that contains the HTML to display an image with an href link. The tool will parse the url of the image and the href, then build the correct pairs for HTML and IMAGE pairs. Once it has successfully parsed an HTML ad your can manually paste the pairs as described above, or use the Pair Dir tool at the bottom, by browsing to the folder where you want the HTML and IMAGE dir's built or added to, then click Add Pairs, and the system will build the directory's if needed and files if needed, and finally add the pairs to both the HTML and IMAGE files under the correct size.tbl file.
To summarize a simple way to add ads to your system try this simple sequence.
If you are intending to offer ads on a client or by IP basis check out faq2016 on custom client insertions.
If you have built pairs for a custom client then in the sequence described above you would simple browse to the directory of the client site before clicking 'Add Pairs'.
Here is a simple set of HTML code that we use for the demo ClientSite 'InternetCafe' your welcome to copy this into your HTML Editor and modify it for your own HTML ad page. Careful!, note that some HTML editors do not include a border="0" tag and as such some browsers will automatically display a border around your image, possibly interfering with correct ad size insertions on some web pages, to prevent this manually insert the 'border="0"' code in your HTML.