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From: Aaron Shi <aaron@××××××××.com>
To: www-redesign@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:06:59
Message-Id: 001d01c5f3a8$031a2eb0$6402a8c0@vega
In Reply to: Re: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar by Kurt Lieber
1 Of course, we could establish guidelines to make the ads look more
2 integrated (i.e. recolored, etc.) to the site. After all, if they looked
3 really out of place, then they may reduce the value for the advertisers
4 because visitors think they're a general annoyance. I think advertiser
5 would understand this reasoning. Just a thought from another perspective.
6
7 Aaron
8
9 > -----Original Message-----
10 > From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:klieber@g.o]
11 > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:13 PM
12 > To: www-redesign@l.g.o
13 > Subject: Re: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar
14 >
15 > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:56:08PM -0600 or thereabouts,
16 > Lance Albertson wrote:
17 > > I was poking around the site and I just seemed to think that the
18 > > advertisement bar takes up a lot of space. Even though it only uses
19 > > the top portion of the site, the rest of the page doesn't render
20 > > completely across the browser because of it. Not sure how feasible
21 > > this is, but could we possibly have an option of making that pane
22 > > 'hidable' via clicking the '> Advertisements' link so it
23 > can make the
24 > > whole page viewable? Not sure if this is possible, but I
25 > know of one
26 > > example in a wiki called dokuwiki where they have a Contents table
27 > > that will hide if you click on it. Curious your ideas/thoughts.
28 >
29 > We can't do this without significantly reducing the value
30 > that those spots hold. If we make it simple for everyone to
31 > hide those ads, advertisers aren't going to be willing to pay
32 > as much (through donated services) to have their ads placed
33 > there. The ad bar needs to remain visible at all times.
34 > (and yes, I realize things like Firefox's AdBlock extension
35 > can do the same thing)
36 >
37 > --kurt
38 >
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