Gentoo Archives: www-redesign

From: Curtis Napier <curtis119@g.o>
To: www-redesign@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:03:48
Message-Id: 438A3B41.2030802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar by Kurt Lieber
1 Kurt Lieber wrote:
2 > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:56:08PM -0600 or thereabouts, Lance Albertson wrote:
3 >
4 >>I was poking around the site and I just seemed to think that the
5 >>advertisement bar takes up a lot of space. Even though it only uses the
6 >>top portion of the site, the rest of the page doesn't render completely
7 >>across the browser because of it. Not sure how feasible this is, but
8 >>could we possibly have an option of making that pane 'hidable' via
9 >>clicking the '> Advertisements' link so it can make the whole page
10 >>viewable? Not sure if this is possible, but I know of one example in a
11 >>wiki called dokuwiki where they have a Contents table that will hide if
12 >>you click on it. Curious your ideas/thoughts.
13 >
14 >
15 > We can't do this without significantly reducing the value that those spots
16 > hold. If we make it simple for everyone to hide those ads, advertisers
17 > aren't going to be willing to pay as much (through donated services) to
18 > have their ads placed there. The ad bar needs to remain visible at all
19 > times. (and yes, I realize things like Firefox's AdBlock extension can do
20 > the same thing)
21 >
22 > --kurt
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25 Removed from my list. Thanks for the clarification klieber.
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