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Project Details

  • Employer: Bigfork Web Development, Inc.
  • Client:
    • Seeley Lake Chamber of Commerce
  • Date: April 2009
  • Type: Website and Ad Management
  • Teammates:
    • RoAnna Lau (Project Manager)

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An example of a public page where banner ads regions are defined. Two banner ads can be seen at the bottom of the right column near the top of the page.An example of a public page where banner ads regions are defined. Two banner ads can be seen at the bottom of the right column near the top of the page.An example of a public page where banner ads regions are defined. Two banner ads can be seen at the bottom of the right column near the top of the page. Additionally, a third large banner add spanning the bottom of the page is also present on this page.
The banner ad administrative management interface allows the user to select the page they wish to manage ads on.Once the administrator has selected the page they want to manage ads on they are given a list of ad regions defined on that page which they can select in order to view or edit the ad associated with that region.An example of editing an ad associated with a specific region. The width attribute is disabled in most cases to standard users to prevent them from accidentally interfering with the formatting of the public page. The height attribute is fully configurable to allow a variety of images to be used in the ad regions. A URL may also be provided allowing the ad to link to another page or website.
An example of editing an ad associated with a specific region. The width attribute is disabled in most cases to standard users to prevent them from accidentally interfering with the formatting of the public page. The height attribute is fully configurable to allow a variety of images to be used in the ad regions. A URL may also be provided allowing the ad to link to another page or website.An example of editing an ad associated with a specific region. The width attribute is disabled in most cases to standard users to prevent them from accidentally interfering with the formatting of the public page. The height attribute is fully configurable to allow a variety of images to be used in the ad regions. A URL may also be provided allowing the ad to link to another page or website.

Seeley Lake Chamber of Commerce

This project was done as part of my work as a contract web developer with Bigfork Web Development, Inc. Seeley Lake, Montana is located on Highway 83 in the beautiful Seeley-Swan Valley, 15 miles north of the Clearwater Junction on Highway 200, and 75 miles south of Bigfork on Highway 35, between the Mission Mountain Wilderness and Bob Marshall Wilderness. The Seeley Lake Chamber of Commerce needed a new website and worked with Bigfork Web Development to get a new website design created. After the website design was nearly finalized I was brought in to add some dynamic features and administrative features to the website.

In particular, one feature they wanted was the ability to include banner image advertisements for local businesses and other special purposes throughout the different pages within their new site. It was important that they be able to manage the banner ads assigned to different positions on specific pages themselves without having to rely on a developer to make the changes. I, therefore, using PHP and MySQL, created an administrative interface on the website that would allow them to upload banner images and assign them to specific locations on pages that supported the placement of banner images.

To begin, specific regions on a set of pages from the website were defined where banner ads could potentially be placed. Once these regions these were defined the back-end administrative interface would automatically populate with a list of these available regions and allow the site owners to upload and edit the banner ads associated with each of these regions.

While the regions generally had a statically set width that could not be edited by standard users to prevent incorrectly sized images from interfering with the website's design, the height of the images placed within these regions were fully customizable allowing for each region to support a variety of image sizes and formats. A link URL attribute was also associated with the uploaded images allowing the site owners to link the banner ads to the websites of the companies being advertised or otherwise link to other pages on their own site or on the Internet.