dswallow
09-04-2008, 08:42 PM
Normally I dispose of all ads on web sites I visit regularly. Well, not really; that's a big effort. But if it's ridiculously oversized compared to the rest of the page of the site, or blinks, slides, or makes noise, even once, it goes bye bye.
Though at the moment I'm sort of playing with Google Chrome, which doesn't let me do that right now. Which is really the only reason I'm even making this post because otherwise I'd have just made it go bye bye and not said another word about it. :p
But I'm just about ready to go back to Firefox for certain sites like this one... And this is why:
This icon appeared on pages here recently:
http://download.capablenet.com/partner/tcf/Best_of_TCF_Icon.jpg
It's on the same row, in the same table, as this icon which has been around for a while:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/alliance/9thTee_button_blue_hd.gif
Notice anything about them? They're not exactly the same height, are they? It's bad enough that space has always mostly been wasted with just one ad sitting there, but at least it was pretty short. Now the vertical space used for this stuff has tripled.
Couldn't you have either found a way to use the same height graphic as the ad for "The Best of TCF" graphic, or found a better place for either or both so an entire row doesn't have to be dedicated to stuff like that. Or dare I suggest putting it at the bottom of the page, instead?
Though at the moment I'm sort of playing with Google Chrome, which doesn't let me do that right now. Which is really the only reason I'm even making this post because otherwise I'd have just made it go bye bye and not said another word about it. :p
But I'm just about ready to go back to Firefox for certain sites like this one... And this is why:
This icon appeared on pages here recently:
http://download.capablenet.com/partner/tcf/Best_of_TCF_Icon.jpg
It's on the same row, in the same table, as this icon which has been around for a while:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/alliance/9thTee_button_blue_hd.gif
Notice anything about them? They're not exactly the same height, are they? It's bad enough that space has always mostly been wasted with just one ad sitting there, but at least it was pretty short. Now the vertical space used for this stuff has tripled.
Couldn't you have either found a way to use the same height graphic as the ad for "The Best of TCF" graphic, or found a better place for either or both so an entire row doesn't have to be dedicated to stuff like that. Or dare I suggest putting it at the bottom of the page, instead?