Open-SmartAds is more than a links module. It is focused in administering links to sites with referral programs (like Snowcovered).

What it Does

The links are divided into categories. You can have one or more categories for each referral site. There is an administration of categories where you can add, edit or delete categories. Each category is composed by a name and a query string. The query string is a string that the referral site provides to you and tells them that a user is going to their site comming from your site. The query string of a category will be added to the links that belong to that category.

There is also an administration of links. Every link has a title, a url and, is associated with a category. Each link can also have a description and an image. In the list of links you can see the number of clicks made in every link and an icon to show the broken links.

The module has a schedule item to check for broken links. That schedule is enabled by default and it runs every hour. Of course, you can change the settings. The broken links that the schedule item finds aren't showed in the view mode of the module.

All the Open-SmartAds modules that you add to a portal use the same global list of categories and links, but it can be filtered by category (and other parameters as described below) in each instance of a module.

You can customize the number of items to show, the display mode (with or without images, with or without description, open in a new window), display only items of some categories, display type: random or fixed. With random type, the module will show random links if the number of links is greater than the number of items to show. With fixed type, you can select exactly what items to show and in what order they will be showed.

The view mode of the module is customizable through styles (module.css). The images have a size of 70x60 pixels. The image that is showed when the link doesn't have an image and display images setting is set to true could be changed, you only have to substitute the file noimage.jpg in the images folder.

Open-SmartAds is fully localizable by resource files.