Ads not being shown rightly

[Caedus]

I noticed this on the TLA forum first. But I checked, and this problem also shows itself on thw WFG and 0AD forums:

When I want to read a thread, then usually an advertisement is shown. I don't really mind this (they're shown on a good spot), but the ads are put to much to the right. That means the screen unnecessarily strechtes out. That's not good because:

1. It's not a clean piece of webdesign

2. People could miss interesting ads and that denies you ad income.

So I suggest to rescale the tables (on all three forums).

[DarkAngelBGE]

On what resolution are you? Could you provide me with a screenshot?

I am aware of the problem. The thing is that the tables cannot be resized as they are generated by google. It's very hard to make them fit on different resolutions since they must be right enought so they don't overlap with our Wildfire Games logo.

I will see what I can do, though.

[fyhuang]

Maybe you could move the ads to the bottom of the page? Or spread them out on two rows?

[King Tutankhamun]

I think it was tried at teh bottom once, but not very many clicked through them.

And the limit is only one ad per page, I think.

[Caedus]

I've made a screenshot and added it to this post. On the screenshot I selected the logo of this forum. I noticed there is much space left to the right of the logo. That's why I suggested table rescaling.

And I find it hard to believe that Google won't allow you to precisely place the ad were you want it, because that way a lot of webmasters might not choose to use it, as it would ruin their layout.

[Lorian]

I used to have that problem on my old 15" at 1024x768 but now we've got a new 17" at 1280x1024 and it doesn't stretch it anymore . Lol, yeah it was very annoying, you sure there's nothing you can do about it?

[Caedus]

It's not a big issue. But I can imagine that a webmaster wants his site as perfect as possible, with no minor glitches.

[DarkAngelBGE]

Exactly, Anco and I want that, too, but in this case it seems impossible. When I make it work on your resolution it will look too much on the left for people with higher resolutions.

And since higher resolutions are more common I have to go with that way. It's all about compromisses - and doing what the majority can see.

I am sorry.

[Curufinwe]

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I used to be on 1024x768 and I didn't have that problem ... you must be on 800x600 mate! change your settings ...

[Lorian]

It stretched the page out for me on 1024x768

[Caedus]

What about using this code to align the ad and logo in a table:

<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="left"><img src="logo_url"></td>
<td align="right">ADVERTISEMENT CODE</td>
</tr>
</table>

The 100% part should stretch things out on all sorts of resolutions. Small resolutions will always have the add going out of the screen, but that problem is unavoidable, as you can only show so much at once.

I don't think that is hard to implant using this board. Just change the header. At least I think it is done that way. I myself have only modded phpBB boards, but I think this system works roughly similar.

Let me know what you do with it .

[Lorian]

I would have thought that this would be obvious so I didn't mention it but yeah, try it if you havn't