think the webdev needs to google a bit harder for new ideas for advertising
Beats the big flashy boxes and conforms to the wishes of most people who complain about ads. Its small, doesnt get in the way and doesnt flash or make noises. Sounds perfect to me.
Jeeze,cant please anyone!
Re res – mm might have a point, I’m running two at 1650×1080 so it is pretty tiny to me.
It would be ok if you could cancel it after you’ve read, but it’s a static image something more dynamic would be better, the adverts to the right and top are less in intrusive in my opinion, but you are correct you can’t please everyone 🙂
yes, it’s a case in point. I complained about flashing ads till I got banned for it by an irate Mark, but I never even noticed this one as it sits in the unused gutter on the left, and even now I know it’s there I don’t mind it…
coffeeking – 1024×768 here you would have appear to have an abundance of screen real estate so I suspect it doesn’t matter, shan’t try it on my netbook 🙂
Eh? Something in the bottom left? Nuffin on mine….but all the shite on the right hand side is there, not that it bothers me too much. I’m above advertising don’t ya know…
It’s broken for me on the iphone (Safari). Appears at the bottom of the screen rather than the bottom of the page, which means it pretty much blats over the middle of the threads.
Doesn’t bother me too much (Safari 3) but on my MacBook I found that coming to the forums drained my battery much faster than normal. Then I counted up to six flash videos on each page. One or two I’ll ignore or read, but six were causing the fans to kick in and the machine CPU got hot all the while. Hence ClickToFlash on Safari and Flashdance on Firefox.
Because it has a transparent area which is bigger than the turned-over area, you can click on the advert while thinking you’re clicking on something else. Annoying.