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On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:56:08PM -0600 or thereabouts, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> I was poking around the site and I just seemed to think that the |
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> advertisement bar takes up a lot of space. Even though it only uses the |
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> top portion of the site, the rest of the page doesn't render completely |
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> across the browser because of it. Not sure how feasible this is, but |
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> could we possibly have an option of making that pane 'hidable' via |
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> clicking the '> Advertisements' link so it can make the whole page |
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> viewable? Not sure if this is possible, but I know of one example in a |
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> wiki called dokuwiki where they have a Contents table that will hide if |
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> you click on it. Curious your ideas/thoughts. |
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We can't do this without significantly reducing the value that those spots |
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hold. If we make it simple for everyone to hide those ads, advertisers |
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aren't going to be willing to pay as much (through donated services) to |
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have their ads placed there. The ad bar needs to remain visible at all |
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times. (and yes, I realize things like Firefox's AdBlock extension can do |
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the same thing) |
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--kurt |
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