openx Use the zone probability screen

One of the most useful screens in the OpenX ad server is the zone probability page. There’s an incredible amount of information that you can get from this screen about what’s happening with regards to banner delivery in your zones, if you know how to understand the information presented.

What’s linked and active?

The most immediately obvious information on the zone probability screen is the list of all banners that are linked and active1 in the zone. The fact that the zone probability screen only shows active banners can be useful, as it allows you to easily see the difference between banners that are active in the zone, and any banners that are merely linked to the zone, as shown on the linked banners screen.

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JQUERY – superfish menu / submenu

Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds the following much-sought-after enhancements:

  • Suckerfish-style hover support for IE6. The class added is “sfHover” by default but can be changed via the options object,
  • Timed delay on mouseout to be more forgiving of mouse-piloting errors. Default is 800 milliseconds but can be changed via the options object
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