Hi everybody,
is my first post here and I have a problem.

I want to create an advertising website for business’ with a lot of categories for example Lawyers, Accountants, Marketing, and each Advert will look like the following:


Company Logo and Name Area:
Address
Tel:
Web address

Services: Explanation what they do



Now this is how it will look but the problem is that company A (which is the first advertisement) will get more hits than company Z (which is the last advertisement) I would like to rotate advertisements so that from advertisement A-Z will get almost the same amount of traffic.

How to do this "rotation" thing? any script?


Thank you, guys!

Hi there, and welcome!

It would be most practical to do the script in a server-side language, such as PHP or ASP.NET. If I were doing it, I would store all of the data of each company in a database table (I use MySQL for my databases, but there are other database flavors.) Call the table "companies" and have a field for logo, name, address, telephone, url, services, etc.

You then use a sql query to get the companies that you want from the database. You can randomize the records either with your server-side script or via the query, depending on how many company records you have, and how efficient you want your script to be.

If you are new to server-side scripting, you'll want to take a look through a Google search for some tutorials, because there is a lot to learn about it.

I agree, the ease of that task would depend greatly on the underlying infrastructure in which you have available to deploy something.

check out hotscripts for your programs.. very useful site...

Hi

Its easy to use a database such as Mysql for this together with PHP

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