New ad sizes

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:15 pm

Is anyone else seeing these? My site and a few others I've looked at are using obnoxiously huge banner ads. Could this be a bug in my HTML that's stretching the ads or has anyone else seen these? They're definitely larger than 468x60, closer to 750x80 but I don't have exact dimensions. I've been seeing them for the past few days and was just wondering.

War · Post by **War** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:58 pm

Aye, I was gonna bring it up earlier. We seem to be getting some 728 by 90 banners like keenspot does, and they're playing merry hell with my layout.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:51 pm

Digital War wrote:Aye, I was gonna bring it up earlier. We seem to be getting some 728 by 90 banners like keenspot does, and they're playing merry hell with my layout.

Oh my god, they severed War's hand!

EMH · Post by **EMH** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:59 pm

Also, there are the pop-ups.

Digital War wrote:Aye, I was gonna bring it up earlier. We seem to be getting some 728 by 90 banners like keenspot does, and they're playing merry hell with my layout.

hmm... I'm not sure as to legality of this, but you could try using CSS:
width:whatever;
height:whatever;
overflow:hidden;

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:43 pm

pop-ups?..

but yeah, some of the new ad sizes are fucking over my comic site's layout...

also, it seems the ads are WIDER than my comic.

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:08 pm

My beautiful new site design!!
I designed it to fit those smaller ads!
Not these monsters!

My 800x600 version!!
Ye took my the longest, and now ye are screwed up the most!!
My tables!!

ZOMBIE USER 19235 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 19235** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:14 am

i don't know, but I've noticed lots of HUGE ads on my site also. Some times two ads pop up and im like

it gets pretty annoying

hm.

Melody · Post by **Melody** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:17 pm

I have noticed the larger ones. Thankfully my comic layout easily accounts for them.

I have never had any popups on Keenspace. Then again, the only comic I read is my own. Still, if you have popups on Keenspace, you probably have spyware.

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:26 pm

Mine doesn't have a problem handing those. But it's really weird, I agree.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:33 pm

Okay, this is what I did on my main page and it seems to have worked:

Code: Select all

<style>
.keen_ad iframe { width:468px; height:60px; }
</style>
...
<div class="keen_ad">***advertisement***</div>

Since the ads are all flash, they scale back to the proper size automatically.

Zuri · Post by **Zuri** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:16 am

There was a post regarding this over in the 'spot forums.

http://forums.keenspot.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=#1307001

Apparently the advertisment code was updated to allow for these huge, obnoxious ads because apparently they pay better.

Not that I agree with it myself.

Not a big fan of big ads, even less of a fan of NOT BEING TOLD about such a change PRIOR to its implimentation.

* grumbles *

War · Post by **War** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:47 pm

Yer quick fix doesn't seem to work faub. The large banners seem to be just ignoring the iframe completely or something.
I'll try Yarp's next. If that fails, time to alter the design a bit.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 9:56 am

I never trusted the places that suggested incorporating the advertisement in your layout.
Yeah.
I would just put ***advertisement***<hr /> and it's fine.

EDIT: removing the bad code.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:01 pm

yeah I add the ***advertisement*** before my first <table> so my design doesn't get affected. seem to the be the sure fire way. even if those gigantic ads to seem a bit obtrusive... sometimes when I load the forums I get this flash of a banner that takes up hald the vertical screen. so I guess it could be much worse.

FoxFang · Post by **FoxFang** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:18 pm

So I have to adjust website so it can fit? Because when they show up, they are the last layer and just disappear behind whatever else and can't be seen. I don't wat to get anyone mad at me.

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:36 pm

Yes, folks, the big ads were comming, by golly, and now they're here. Please adjust your sites to allow for a full honking 760-pixel-wide ad. I'll be doing the same myself for mine in a few days.

BIG! HONKNG! ADS!

BTW -- pitch folks to get KeenSpot Premium, so they won't see those BIG! HONKING! ADS! I'm working on a way to get the weekly pages and everything in /premium working again. Hint hint!

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:48 pm

So I take it that we're not supposed to mess with the new ad sizes? Just need to have that spelled-out please.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:40 pm

What's the actual size of the huge banner ad?

Post by **Kisai** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:02 pm

DO NOT:

1. attempt to hide the ad
2. attempt to resize the ad

This violates the advertisor agreements, which means bad things.

DO:
1. Stop using a layout table, put the ad outside of it.
2. Adjust your layout so you don't get trompped on by 768x90 ads.

...

Oh and BTW, if you are running any firewall/privacy enhancement that strips referrers or hides ads... bad you.

You know the reason that the 468x60 banner is going away is because such stupid software auto-hides the normal banners. Blame the firewall software makers.

War · Post by **War** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:16 am

Ah well, chopped a little of War's hair off and moved the ad tag out of the table. All is well again.

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