Well, there's two ways to do this for you...there's a somewhat easy way,
and a somewhat hard way, depending on how "long-term" you think about things.
I've created a folder in your HTDOCS directory named /ssi/ (shorthand for
Server Side Include) that contains three files - adcode.txt, top.ad and
bottom.ad. There's two different ways you can include the ads in your site:
1) The somewhat easier way: rename all of your pages so that instead of
using .html as the extension you use .htm for the extension. Pages that
end with .htm are valid file types to use server side includes, which .html
files are not. Once you've done that, you can edit the pages (probably
easiest to do this while renaming everything anyway...) and make two changes:
- towards the top of each page, add in this line of code:
- at the VERY bottom of each page, right before the /body tag, add this
line of code:
There are two parts to the ad code (as you'll see if you read the
"adcode.txt" file) - the banner ad itself (top.ad) and the banner ad
"trigger" (bottom.ad). Those two files, working in conjunction, cause one
ad to appear on your page (not two as you may be fearing ).
2) The somewhat harder way: leave all of your pages as .html extension
pages, and follow the instructions in adcode.txt, copying multiple lines of
code into each and every page both at the top and bottom. This way is
somewhat more intensive, and doesn't do much for you "long term". I've
always been partial to server side includes since it makes management a lot
easier...if something changes, you only have to edit ONE file instead of
thousands...which is why Echo's FULL of server side include files
Well, that's about it...lemme know if you've got any more questions :-)
Whenever you're all done, let me know...I'll change your entry in our
billing database to reflect that you're an "echo participating" site which
means the bill triggers won't fire off.