I tried playing again with the Joomla Banners for creating "Ads" and serving them but it is not very fast and it is not responsive.

So, of course my mind gravitated to ZenTools.

I am trying to figure out how to achieve the following with ZenTools2

Create Slideshows or grids, etc.. to display images within a folder

ie.
01-Image01-drcarney
02-Image02-allmedphysician
03-Image03-veggievore

etc...

Then I also need to also provide a list of urls that they are supposed to go to.

www.drcarney.com
www.allmedphysicians.com
www.veggievore.com

etc...

I only want to display one image each time the page is refreshed.
I want each image to ALWAY go to it's corresponding url.

Can this be done in ZenTools2?

Also, if I had a page with six of these one image grids on it would that become too slow because of the instances of ZenTools?

Thanks for any input. I will keep playing with this myself until I hear from you. But, the main challenge I have is to ensure each image always goes to the correct associated url.

Thanks, Sean

Hi Sean,

The main issue is the ability to randomise the image that loads while keeping the link

I'll need to check in the morning but I don't think there is a way to randomise the image loading while still maintaining the correct link

Cheers
Paul

I'm referring to image folder as the source - I think as articles this would work

I will check in the morning

Yes, that is what I figured. I just could not find a way to have the image and the url somehow connected. The Joomla Banners can do this although it doesn't really adjust for responsive templates. This is where ZenTools2 shines.

Paul,
I noticed today that one of the content sources you accept is actually Joomla banners. I did some experiments and I can basically bypass the banners tool and use ZenTools2 and it does keep track of which URL goes with which image.

So, this is good.

I still am trying to figure out how to set the image to be smaller for the mobile devices than for the desktops.

Thanks, Sean

Are the images not resizing?

Cheers
Paul

Think you may be the first person to post about using banners in zentools2

The images are not resizing when using Joomla Banners. But, I realized maybe I need to use larger images and see how that works.

If I use ZenTools2 for the banners then the images become responsive right away. The downside is that the Joomla Banner client tracking system is bypassed. ie. the links go directly to the pages they need to without going through the banner component urls that track the clicks.

So, I am going to try to experiment later today with creating larger images than the space affords on a desktop so that maybe they will look nice on mobile devices. I will let you know what I find.

I did see that there are some people on the JED who have tried to solve this lack and have responsive ads. I don't need anything fancy and may try one of them. Although I hesitate to add any more javascript providers to my site than I already have.

As they are your sites and ads so to speak

Have you tried using joomla articles with just images and used the article alternate links both in the page and the zentools2 module?

But as you say no tracking but might work with randomising

I thought about that but I really do want the tracking because this is exploratory before allowing some other select people to also advertise. And, I am trying to not use software from too many people.

I think I will purchase and play with the Responsive Banner Slider to see if it can help make the images display responsively. They are also all about animate ads which I am not needing too much of though. So, not sure it is my solution.

www.templateplazza.com/items/responsive-banner-slider-joomla-module

Yes I thought that might be the case

Can you keep us posted on how you get on with your solution?

Cheers
Paul