Peel-off corner ads
February 17th, 2008 by Andreas from XavierMedia.comI guess you have seen the small, slightly animated corners in the right upper corner of some pages (mostly blogs) where an ad will show up if you move your mouse over the corner. If you haven't then check out the right upper corner of this blog!
This is something called peel-off corner ads or peel away ads and is according to me an innovative way of showing ads (I just love to check out these ads, but that may be because I'm a geek 
). I've seen sites selling the little piece of code doing exactly this for anywhere between $5 up to $137 (!!!!) when there are free alternatives that's doing the exact same thing. John Chow for example tried to sell the script for $37 (!!!). OK he's selling a little bit more advanced piece of code, but I guess you can find free scripts that do the same thing if you combine them.
How to add peel-off ads on your site
As I said yesterday on Twitter.com I'm going to tell you how to install this kind of ads on your own site or blog.
It's quite easy to install and use (the hardest part is to create the actual ads ). The script I'm using is from donalyza.com, but you can find similar scripts on other pages too. Just search for free peel off ads script at Google. The beauty with this kind of ads is that you can add it on any page you like not just only your blog.
- Download the files needed. Usually it's a .js file (the actual script), two Flash movies (one for the animated corner and one for the big ad) and two images (one for the small corner and one for the ad).
- Open the .js file in any text editor you like (I use for example Wordpad on Windows or Nano on Linux) and make a few adjustments (just follow the instructions ).
- Create two images. One small (the corner: 75×75 pixels) and one big (the actual ad: 500×500)
- Upload all your files to your web server
- Add one line of code at your web site:
<script src="/pagepeel/PagePeel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
- If you can't see the corner ad you need to make sure that you uploaded all images in the correct folder (that was my first mistake
)
Now it's time to let the creativity flow 
If you're using peel-off ads on your site or blog, please post a link here so we can have a look at how you did it.
If there's something you would like to know how to do, please send me a message and maybe, just maybe I'll write a post on how to do it
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February 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 am
I personally DO NOT like the peel-ads especially after John Chow published a post about it and got hundreds of new buyers for that script. It LAGS the browser/computer very badly and it causes some problems.
-Mike
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I may dislike them soon too, but for now it's a new way of advertising
February 25th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Yeah its a new way, i am thinking to display one on my site too, Sure it will peal off soon from Blogsphere soon, no doubt about it.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
I added one on my website (Wordpress). Check it out.
http://www.blackslash.net
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
..For some strange reason. It does not show up in Linux (Ubuntu) – Firefox.
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
PD, how do you get the peel away ads to open its link in the same browser window? I have it implemented on my site but the code creates a new popup for the link. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks
August 6th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
@Bill: I don't think you can set the ads to open in the same window. I looked in the .js file but couldn't find any such option
/Andreas
August 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Bill, sorry for late reply. I also checked the .js file and was unable to find appropriate coding. You can use the Wordpress Plugin if your using wordpress on your blog. It works like a charm on Wordpress 2.6
I found it here:
http://www.webpicasso.de/blog/wordpress-pagepeel-plugin/
(if for some reason the link does not work anymore. Simply google Page Peel/Magic Corner for Wordpress)
Good Luck Bill!
February 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Hi,
I have used peel corner on one of the my site. Now I want to display .html page in peel corner. not a big size image.
Is it possible?
Normally We are setting page link to big peel image. but I want to open .html page which contains introduction video ! Is it possible?
Any help will be appreciate !
February 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
I don't think that's possible in this peel-off ad script. Maybe you can find another one using Google taht can show HTML pages too.
/Andreas
August 10th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Hey nice tut, and i m still looking forwared to get that javascript file.. but no luck yet, is it possible if some1 guide me so i can have this working on my forum
Thanks
August 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Can't you get the file from donalyza.com as mentioned in the post?
October 30th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Isn't there any plugin to do this? I am using wordpress.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:56 am
You don't really need to have it as a plugin since it's only one line of code you have to add in your header.php file of the Wordpress theme you're using.