banner ad rotation

[skippi4]

I am trying to figure out my banner ad rotation, and am stuck. I want to have, instead of many banners rotating every few seconds, something very different, and, as usual, I can't figure it out. I have in my site, groups of 5 pages with a common theme, for example all relate to the same city. I would like to create a rotation of 20 ads that will rotate in order. The way they change is, If you are on page 1, you see the first banner ad, then, if you go to another page for that city, banner ad 2 comes up. If, at the same time, someone else goes to page one, they see banner ad 3 in the rotation. The 20 ads constantly rotate, in order, on the 5 pages as different people access them. I think this is possible. How do I do it. I have web designer 6.0. Thank you to anyone who's able to help.

[ckh]

I think you are going to need a server side scripting language in order to rotate banners that way as the server will need to keep track of the last page shown and change the ad for the next viewer. It wouldn't be a problem with php, but, a rotating script would need to be written for the ad rotation and probably just a file that it can write to, to track the last page seen. That would mean the pages that are going to have the ad rotator in them would need to have the .php or .html extension (unless you tell the server to parse html for php in .htm/.html files in the .htaccess file, which may be easier than renaming all the files).

[skippi4]

Thank you very much for the response. I'll look into what my website host will/can do. Thanks again.