Introducing... xBanners for X-Cart

Will Hayes · #1 12-22-2010, 08:28 AM

More introductions...

If you like displaying banners on your website then get ready for this...
xBanner for x-cart, the ultimate banner management module

http://www.thexcartstore.com/xbanners-banner-module-for-xcart.html

xBanners is the first Ad banner module to include multiple banner types, transitional effects, location aware banners,
calendar overview and live banner preview all in a single easy to manage interface. Setting up and managing your banners has never been this easy!

Features include:

Banner placement on all x-cart pages
Advanced Scheduling options
Support for multiple banner types (image banners (single or group), HTML banners & Flash banners)
Group banners into a single xBanner with configurable DHTML transitional effects.
In-built live preview display options
Campaign & Calendar Manager interfaces
Advanced statistics and graphical reporting
Location aware banners using GeoIP lookup
and many more...

See xBanners in action here:
http://demo.thexcartstore.com/home.php

Using xBanners is so easy - even still, checkout some of our online Videos:
http://www.thexcartstore.com/xcart-video-tutorials.html

Don't forget about our great 15 day FREE trial license & super Christmas discounts.

Thanks again for taking the time to read about our products - let us know if you have any comments or questions,
we'd love to hear from you, over at The xCart Store

regards
W.

anandat · #2 12-25-2010, 04:40 AM

Hi will,
This module support flash banners ?

Will Hayes · #3 12-25-2010, 05:27 AM

Hi Anandat,

Yep, it certainly does support flash banners, I've updated my original post just to clarify this. (thanks)

When creating an xBanner you can choose between, image banners (single image or
image groups with various transition effects), HTML text banners & flash based banners.

If you would like to see the admin area of the mod in action, you can see it demonstrated in our video tutorials:
http://www.thexcartstore.com/Tutorials.html

regards
W.

Will Hayes · #4 01-04-2011, 12:53 PM

Hi all,

Just a quick update, our xBanners module for x-cart is now listed on the X-Cart MarketPlace website, we're thrilled with the response we've been getting so far.

Check it out here

Thanks to everyone for all the support.

Happy New Year
W.

tonycch · #5 01-04-2011, 07:30 PM

Is this banner seo friendly? Does it slow down my site?

Will Hayes · #6 01-05-2011, 12:38 AM

Hi Tony,

Good question

Yep, xBanners is as SEO friendly as it possibly can be.

The banners are added to your source using <ul> lists, the source is very clean. If you choose to create image banners you can define the image alt tag & URL title,
the same is true for flash banners. You can also add HTML banners, in this case you insert this code so its up to you how SEO friendly it is.

Does it slow down my site?

The short answer is "Yes & No"

"Yes" because every single x-cart module that has to call into the database to retrieve data will impact on the server, this is a fact. So the less calls you make to the database the better.

"No" because in the case of xBanners the calls to the database are tiny in comparison to the standard xcart database queries that are executed for every single page loaded on your site.

So, to correctly answer the question, you or your customer will not notice any performance difference from installing and using xBanners.

We ran some performance tests before on various servers using xbanners and the impact was minimal, almost unnoticeable. I will see if I have this data on file somewhere.

regards
W.

tonycch · #7 01-05-2011, 11:29 PM

Will,

Thanks for answering my questions. Love this mod. I will order as soon as 4.4.2 come out.

Tony

Will Hayes · #8 01-06-2011, 12:55 AM

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the great feedback, I'm glad to hear you like what we've done with xBanners.
We plan to update all our modules as soon as the next release of xcart becomes available.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

regards
W.

Will Hayes · #9 01-12-2011, 05:20 AM

Hi all,

For those of you that have have been waiting for the release of xcart 4.4.2

We're glad to report that our xBanner module for xcart is 100% compatible with x-cart 4.4.2.

To download your 15 day FREE trial license or purchase a commercial license, just pop over to The xCart Store - we're looking forward to hearing from you.

regards
Will.

JacksmithxD · #10 01-18-2011, 07:07 AM

Where to begin? I'm a complete novice when it comes to xCart. So I emailed the xCart Store about this mod, within minutes I got a reply with the answer I was looking for. I decided to install the trial version as I thought the mod was to good to be true and I was sick of paying for mods that weren't as described. After reading the instructions to install the mod (very detailed and easy to follow!) I had xBanners up and running in minutes.

I use xBanners to list my manufacturers on the front page, along with the promotion side of my website at the side and on the header. Needless to say the banners work flawlessly, you have all the technical side of the banners on your admin section, easy to access and easy to see which banner gets the most clicks and so forth all very useful stuff indeed.
You can change all your images, change them on the admin side with ease. (set dates and the locations for other users to see certain banners although I have no idea how to do it as i don't require such an advanced feature) but the option is there and tutorials on the website if you decide to do so in the future.

Basically all I'm trying to get across is if you need a banner module for your xcart website look no further, seriously. Everything you need is in this module! I'm considering using the predictive search module and hoping The xCart Store release more mods at this quality.

p.s i don't usually do reviews but in this case i wanted people to know how good it truely is!