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Displaying Online Advertisements

You can set up IMail Web Calendaring to display advertising. Ads are displayed at the top of each calendar page and can consist of HTML text and/or graphics, including hyperlinks. Multiple ads are also supported on a time-sharing basis. With Ad Support enabled, IMail Web Calendaring cycles through up to 1000 ads, changing the displayed ad every 30 seconds. You can enable ads for each mail host. Thus making it possible to have different ads for different hosts.

To enable ad support:

  1. In IMail Administrator, select the mail host, then select the Web Calendaring Ad Support tab.
  2. Turn on Enable Ad Support.

    To disable ad support, make sure this box is turned off.

To create or edit an online advertisement:

  1. On the Ad Support tab, click Add. Enter the HTML code and text for the ad in the text box and click Apply.

    The ad can contain up to 512 characters of HTML code. It can display a .gif file and can link to a web address (URL).

    If the ad is larger than the frame size, a scroll bar appears on the right side of the frame. Thus, an ad can be a full web page.

You can enter up to 1000 ads using the interface. The ads you entered are saved in the file ads.txt. If you prefer to use an editor rather than the IMail Administrator, you can enter and edit ads by opening ads.txt in an editor. There is no imposed limit to the number of ads if you enter them manually in the ads.txt file.

To create or edit a trailer message:

The trailer (tail) message displays in the frame at the bottom of the screen if you have Ad Support enabled.

Select the mail host and click the Web Calendaring Content tab. This must be a full HTML page, starting with <HTML><BODY> and ending with </BODY></HTML>. The trailer message is stored in the tail.html file.

A nice idea for using the trailer message is to use a Java scrolling text area to print any current news.

In addition to the above procedure, you can also edit tail.html directly in a text editor. tail.html is located at [IMail Top Directory]\Web\Calendar.


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