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Update

Use the "Update" menu item to insert, delete, and change ads in a channel.

Select a channel from the dropdown list on the home page. Then, click the "Update" menu item.

You'll see a button to insert an ad into the channel and a Channel Ads table listing all of its ads (if any).

Inserting an ad into the channel —

Click the button above the table. On the next page, you'll see a page with 4 form fields:

  1. A name for the ad. Type a name for the ad. What you type here will be listed in the Channel Ads table.

  2. The "enabled" checkbox. To enable the ad, check the box. To disable, uncheck the box. Only enabled ads are displayed on web pages.

  3. The ad to publish. Type or paste the ad to publish. Any HTML and JavaScript code a regular web page can have can be put here.

    PHP code can not be used in the ads themselves. It has to do with the way the ad is delivered from Carefree Ad Manager to the web page.

    About links:

    Carefree Ad Manager will count clicks only on links with the A tag's href attribute in this format:

    href="_____"

    The attribute has double quotation marks. The underscore is replaced with the URL of the link. If more than one click-countable link is in the ad, each should have the same link URL.

    The A tag may have additional attributes. target= or style=, as examples.

    The reason for the strict format is that Carefree Ad Manager will substitute those links with its own link. The substitution enables Carefree Ad Manager to count clicks.

    More than one ad may have the href="_____" link so long as each link URL is identical.

    To publish links that are not counted when clicked, consider these options:

    • Use single quotation marks instead of double quotation marks.

    • To prevent search engines from following it as a link, use a different tag for linking. (See "Linking Without an 'A' Tag")

  4. Notes. For private notes to yourself regarding the ad.

Click the submit button to insert the ad into the channel.

Editing an ad —

Find the ad to edit in the Channel Ads table.

If one or more ads are to be enabled or disabled, check their respective Enabled checkboxes. Then, click one of the submit buttons on that page.

To make other edits to an ad, click its Edit button. Then, change any of the fields mentioned in the "Inserting an ad into the channel" section. Click the submit button to finalize the edits.

Deleting one or more ads —

Find the ads to delete in the Channel Ads table. Check their "delete" checkbox.

Click the Delete Checked Ads button below the table.

Channel information —

If desired, the channel name, the 1:1 ad rotation and related checkboxes, and the notes about the channel may be changed.

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Carefree Ad Manager version 2.0d
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