README.HTM VERSION 1.01

ClickseeAdnow Version1.0 Free

System Requirement:

Note: If you would like to test on your local server, you must have Personal Web Server and ODBC for Microsoft Access installed on your computer.

Installation

  1. Extract freeadnow.zip and you'll get a FreeAdNow directory and db directory.
  2. Open FreeAdNow directory.
  3. Open include directory.
  4. Open the file DSN_Connection.asp using Notepad or text/HTML editor.
  5. Type in the Data Source Name within the quote (For example, Const DsN_AdNow="ClickseeAdNow"). You can name it anything you want (avoiding space).
  6. Save it.
  7. Move the file redirect.asp  from FreeAdNow directory to the directory that your web pages reside.  For example, if your web pages are in c:\inetpub\your_dir\, the file redirect.asp must be in this directory too. If you also have web pages in  c:\inetpub\your_dir\your_sub\, you must have redirect.asp in this directory too. Just make a copy of this file and put it wherever your web pages are. This file is needed, so that the program can redirect the users after they click on the banners.
  8. FTP the whole FreeAdNow directory and everything inside it, including the file redirect.asp to your web server. 
  9. Look inside the db directory and you will see only one file inside. It's adnow.mdb, which is the file that contains the statistics and all advertising data. So, you absolutely don't want anyone to view it or download it from your server. We would recommend you to FTP the file adnow.mdb to a secure directory. Ideally it should be somewhere under the root directory so that it is not accessible from the Web. If you cannot do that because your web hosting provider don't allow, you can use Microsoft FrontPage 2000 to upload the adnow.mdb file by using "import" function. FrontPage will ask you "Would you like to create a new database connection for this imported file?".  Choose "Yes" and let FrontPage put the file in fpdb directory. If you don't have FrontPage, that's OK too. The concept behind this is to protect other users on the Internet to view or download your database. Your web hosting provider should have an answer for you on how to do this.

Setting up an ODBC

If you maintain your server, you can do it yourself. If you rent a web space from a web hosting provider, just tell them to setup an ODBC for you.

  1. Open ODBC Data Sources in Control Panel.
  2. Select System DSN tab, click Add.
  3. Select Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb), click Finish.
  4. Type in the name in the Data Source Name field. This is the name that you setup in Step 5 of Installation.
  5. Under Database, click Select.
  6. Point to your FreeAdNow directory.
  7. Under Database Name, highlight adnow.mdb, click OK.
  8. Click OK and OK again to exit.
  9. Voila! You're ready to have fun, enjoy!

Using Clicksee AdNow V.1.0

Setting up user name and password

  1. First thing to do is setting up the administrative user name and password. Using your web browser to open a file admin.asp. This file is in FreeAdNow directory.
  2. Type in the user name and password that you will use to admin the ads. This is one-time setup. Next time when you login to admin.asp, you will need to type these user name and password.

Managing the Advertisements

After logging in, you will be able to view the Statistic Report of your advertisement by its Company, Location, and Status and view your advertisement information such as Date Start, Date End, Impressions, Clicks, and Click Thru Percentage. 

Setting up the Advertisements

* Location is just the name, not a physical location, you give to the ad(s), and you will use this name to indicate where you want to put the ad(s).

* The weight is used when for one location you want to put more than one ad.

* For the weight: it will work with the ads with the same location name, for example, you have 2 ads and you gave them the same location name and you weight them differently like for first ad, you give it weith of 3 and 5 to the another.  The ads will be selected randomly and run for that given weight, then switch to another ad and run for a given weight.

* The location name is not case-sensitive.

  1. The first thing to do is adding the name of your customer. After logging in, you will see the Statistic Report Center page , click on "Add New Company."
  2. Fill out all the necessary information in the provided fields, then click submit.
  3. Continue to add the advertisement. Most are basis questions. AdNow can display ads located anywhere on the web. Just give it the http:// path.
  4. You can manage the ad to appear on the different section of the page by using "Location." For example, you may have the banner on the top of your page and the button on the left of your page. You use "Location" to tell AdNow that some ads will appear only at the "banner" location and some ads will appear only at the "button" location. You can name it anything you want. We just use the words "banner" and "button" for as a demonstration here. This "Location" is also helpful when you want to sell the ad space on the front page and other pages separately. You may name the banner on the front page as "banner1" and the banner of other pages as "banner2."
  5. You can also use AdNow to weight the ads. There are 10 levels of "weight." 10 is the highest. If you have two ads and you give the weight of "10" to one ad and the weight of "1" to another ad, the ad that is assigned "10" will run for 10 impressions and the ad that is assigned "1" will run for 1 impressions. This is just an example. If you have 2 ads, you can assign "1" and "2" for each ad, so that one ad appear 1/2 of another ad.
  6. If you want to display a short text under the banner, you can put it in the "Text Message" box.
  7. After submit "Add New Company" and "Add a new advertisement", you can now start tracking your ad(s) through the Statistic Report Center. You can always Edit and Delete your advertisement and company info. afterward.

Viewing the statistics

  1. From the center page, you can choose to view the ad by mixing the criteria, company name, location, and status.
  2. Your advertiser can view the statistics by accessing login.asp and they will be asked for user name and password. Advertisers can view their statistics and edit their profile and password.
  3. Advertisers can edit information of their ads. If they want to change the banner, they can do it from the stats page without contacting you.

Displaying Advertisements

Your web pages have to be in .asp extension.

To display a banner on a particular page, simply insert this statement on the top of your page.

<!--#include file="FreeAdNow/run.asp"-->

Make sure that it points to the correct directory that the file run.asp is in.

Insert the following line where you want the banner to appear.

<%adnow "Banner"%>

It's not necessary to be "Banner" within the quote. The word within the quote is the Location that you set in Step 4 of "Setting up the Advertisements." So, if you have more than one location that you want to display the ads in the page, you can insert the line with different location again and again.

See the file testad.asp that is included in the zip for an example.