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On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 22:12 +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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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, I see what you're saying about the perceived value of the ad |
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spots, but it seems to me sponsors aren't motivated to sponsor us by the |
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ads, because, for instance there are sponsors who have donated what has |
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to be thousands of dollars of machines/parts (Genesi, HP, AMD, nVidia |
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come to mind) who have not been given an ad spot (I don't know if this |
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is because they were offered one but didn't want it, or what), but in |
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the absence of an established policy, it seems issuance of the ad spots |
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is largely arbitrary, which would leave us dictating terms as it were ;) |
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so couldn't we dictate terms to make what Lance is suggesting possible, |
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which is a good idea and something that would improve usability of the |
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site? |
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On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:07 +0000, Aaron Shi wrote: |
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> I assume the existing site had a set of advertising guidelines hence |
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> all the |
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> ads are the same dimensions. If there is, couldn't we revise those |
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> guidelines for the new site re: size and color? To make it easy for |
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> the |
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> existing adverstisers, we can convert the ads to fit new guidelines |
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> for them |
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> if they provide the ad files. |
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btw, I don't know if you saw this or not, but is this doable? |
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Thanks. |
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Blackace |
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Gentoo Linux |
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