[closed] layout issue: Really really annoying advert below 1st post

[SimpleSi]

I really really don't like the advert after 1st post - I associate it with being at bootom of a thread and stop scrolling so I miss the posts below.

 

No doubt its staying but its very very annoying.

 

regards

 

Simon

Edited February 27, 2008 by ZeroHour

[Netman]

I have to agree - distracting and makes the page slow to load at times...

[ChrisH]

You know why the adverts are there and that they have to be placed where they will be seen. Without them there would be no site, as the cost of keeping the site up is fairly high. If it came down to a banner or a subscription which would you choose? Its not like there are pop up windows and such everywhere or anything is it?

[leco]

You know why the adverts are there and that they have to be placed where they will be seen. Without them there would be no site, as the cost of keeping the site up is fairly high. If it came down to a banner or a subscription which would you choose? Its not like there are pop up windows and such everywhere or anything is it?

 

Whilst I have to agree with this sentiment, I too find the advert distracting. Could it not be placed above the post as it is on other pages?

[elsiegee40]

I would prefer to see the ad above the first post too.

[Dos_Box]

This is a temporary mesure until ZH can get the CSS edited for all the pages where it will be placed at the top of the page. Sorry for the distraction.

[CyberNerd]

In firefox, right click the image and select "block images from ...."

[mattx]

As CyberNerd pointed out - use FF to block them. I use the Adblock Plus add on. Checkout:

 

http://adblockplus.org/en/

 

With that you won't get any adverts at all once you have set your wildcard...

 

These are what I have set - just in case it helps.

http://adtech.panthercustomer.com/*

http://www.edugeek.net/bett/21083-visiterbanner.swf

http://edugeek.net/bett/21083-visiterbanner.swf

http://www.edugeek.net/images/sponsors/*

 

Hope that helps.

[Dos_Box]

Thank you. When we want to hold conferences and get the guys down to BETT (hopefully SETT as well this year) again and we cant due to lack of funds we know where to look. Please remeber that unlike most sites we reinvest what we get back to our members.

It cost upwards of £100 per day just to feed people and transport them around during BETT week alone!

Edited February 11, 2008 by ChrisH

[mrforgetful]

I'd happily pay a little subscription through school finds

[beeswax]

I'd happily pay a little subscription through school finds

 

I'm still trying to convince the school to cough up £50 to donate funds to an open source CMS I use for the school website. It's been 18 months or more since I first approached SMT about this.

[Joanne]

if we click on the ad's do you get more money?

[Oops_my_bad]

I really really don't like the advert after 1st post - I associate it with being at bootom of a thread and stop scrolling so I miss the posts below.

 

No doubt its staying but its very very annoying.

 

regards

 

Simon

 

 

Yeh, especially the one with the spotty kid holding the apple - pathetic.

[CyberNerd]

if we click on the ad's do you get more money?

 

can we use scripts to do it, and make up for bad blocking behaviour?

[Joanne]

Yeh, especially the one with the spotty kid holding the apple - pathetic.

 

can't you see the kid just wants to solve your paper problems??

 

he wants to save the WORLD!!!!!!

[localzuk]

I am at 2 minds about the advert - yes, it can be a bit distracting but then that is why we have scroll bars.

 

The thing to remember is that the adverts on here are actually sometimes quite useful - for example the usb keys advert helped me the other day.

 

I don't block adverts on any site - how can a small site survive if they don't get any income from sponsors?

[mrforgetful]

I dont even notice adverts anymore lol.

 

Unless it's them long ones down the side, don't like them.

[Joanne]

I hate the ones that take over your page if you scroll over them (like on yahoo) now they annoy me... oh and the ones that have sound... GGRRRR

 

The ones on here are fairly subtle if you axe me.

[mrforgetful]

Yeh they are annoying.

 

Though I strangely like the smiley face one that makes a noise on mouseover.

[Dos_Box]

if we click on the ad's do you get more money?

 

 

No that is old hat now. What happens is that our agents (IDG Communictions) will 'sell' x amount of advert space to a client, say £500 per month. Once that is used up they get no more ads on the site until the next month. The problem is that we have to provide traffic figures to them (hit rates etc) so that they can 'sell' us to them.

This year we have some major costs coming down. We are buying our own server and paying for it to be hosted somewhere safe and reliable. I also intend for us to do SETT (any Scottish members take note. We will need staff for the stand!) and we have lots of 'nice things' line up for all of you guys. All of which cost a lot of money.

Remember, everything we do for you is free, and always will be. This however costs us.

[Geoff]

I hate the ones that take over your page if you scroll over them (like on yahoo) now they annoy me... oh and the ones that have sound... GGRRRR

 

My personal favorites are the banner ads that use IE exploits to drop a trojan/virus/worm on to the machine.

[Joanne]

so clicking refresh several times on the homepage is in right?

 

or does it do the counts from ip's?

[ZeroHour]

I have tweaked the location of the ad's which should be better now.

As for the necessity of ad's, its currently the only way to generate the revenue we need for shows.

When you block ad's on edugeek, any ad's on edugeek you effect the value your vists have. We can maybe show we get x amount of hits per day but if users block the ads advertisers dont see the numbers and then are less likely to buy more ad campaigns involving the site which only cuts our possible revenue for bett/events.

Most of the ad's/sponsorship are relevant to education which means may spot the odd offer you would like to use which is not a bad thing.

If you do run Adblocker Plus etc you can right click on the icon in the bottom right corner of FF and click "disable on www.edugeek.net", this will mean any ad's (from any provider) that are displayed on edugeek are shown in your browser. This helps support edugeek and means you the members get better events etc for it. Its like donating but without the need to donate and you never know you might spot a deal

Edited February 12, 2008 by ZeroHour