If you want to add an adSense block to your header with just a few lines of code then you may find this tutorial is for you, in this tutorial we will insert an adSense block into the header section on all pages except the main page.

Layout Stylesheet

/* Header Ad set the float and margins here */
#cms-header-ad {
display: block;
float:right;
height:60px;
margin-top:30px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:20px;
width:468px;
overflow:hidden;
}

There are only four settings we need to change here, float will place the adblock left or right, then you need to set the left or right margin and zero the other one, last is the top margin, header height – 60 and divided by two for ours 125-60 = 65,  65 / 2 =32.50 so we set ours at 30px

The paste this at the end of your style.css file remember to add start and end comments like this /* Start added by cms header  adSense block */

The Header Ad php code

<?php
/* update your ad here between ' ' */
$cmsmyadtext = 'replace with your adSense code here';
$cmsadtext = get_option('cms_banner_ad_text');
if ($cmsadtext != $cmsmyadtext) update_option('cms_banner_ad_text',$cmsmyadtext);
if(get_option('cms_banner_ad_text')){ ?>
<div id="cms-header-ad">
<?php echo stripslashes(get_option('cms_banner_ad_text')); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>

This code will create and store the adsense code you enter between the single quotes on line 3 in a WordPress option, it will then compare this to what it gets back from the database, if it has been altered it will reset it to what you have in this file, to disable it just blank the text between the single quotes.

The Themes Header File

We now need to call this new file in the themes header file, you will need to know the structure of the header to place the code inside the correct tag, in our header we have placed the code in the art-header-jpg <div>.

<!-- Start CMS-Lite header ad  -->
<?php if (file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/cms_inc/addons/cms-header-ad/cms-header-ad.php')){
    include_once(TEMPLATEPATH . '/cms_inc/addons/cms-header-ad/cms-header-ad.php');
} ?>
<!-- End CMS-Lite header ad  -->

Lets look at this code, the first line is our comment, the next line checks to see if our new file exists, if it exists the third line includes the code in the header, then we end with another comment.

Here is a screenshot with the Artisteer adSense block, I am sure i have seen that website before somewhere, please leave some feedback!

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