I am running a regional community for Kosi Bay, South Africa (Kosi Tribe)
My idea is to create a private advert category that only admins can post to and for all of its topics (if not closed yet) to be displayed on a large photo banner at the top of the page. The topics in this category would consist of a subject, image and a link only.
This should keep things nice and clutter free and support local.
Any thoughts, ideas or alternative suggestions on this?
I’m doing this exact thing on blenderartists.org right now by slightly modifying the CSS for a ‘banner topic’. Note that this will not give you rotating banners.
I’m also using the open source Revive Adserver for the rotating banners you’ll see at the side of topics - you could use this to rotate top banners too, of course.