True but one would still expect a comparable % of complaints, relative to the membership size. 2 sites generated a couple of complaints, the other 2 none.
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True but one would still expect a comparable % of complaints, relative to the membership size. 2 sites generated a couple of complaints, the other 2 none.
I'm sorry, I don't get it. The fact that the other sites' members didn't object means that we shouldn't? Or that all of the objections that have been voiced from numerous members of this forum are in some fashion not valid?
Note that all of codeguru's ads are (1) narrower and (2) uniform in width. Is there any chance that a compromise along those lines can be reached on this forum? Certainly the upgrade has a lot of positives. They are more than outweighed (imo) by the wide and varying ad/emptyspace format.
As I mentioned, CodeGuru will look like this fairly soon. In a few months+. No of course it doesn't invalidate complaints. I take the complaints seriously, and I do bump them "upstairs", so to speak. What the members aren't seeing is, that is not the same ad as was previously on top. We call it a "flex" ad, because it will appear as it does now, a square, and it will appear as a rectangle, 2 to 3 times it's current height. That's why it needs to be on the side. Can you imagine how far it would push the content down if it were 3x it's height, and on top of the main table?
Funnily enough I went to http://www.datamation.com/forums the day before VDr changed and apart from the fact that almost no one posts there my thoughts were "man this layout sux". :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by DrMDJ
Imgaine my shock and horror when my beloved VDr looked the same the vey next day. :eek:
:( :( Boo hoo hoo. :( :(
We aren't seeing it because that wasn't clearly explainedQuote:
Originally Posted by JPNYC
But when it is the ad 3 times the height is about 1/4 the width so visually it is much more aesthetic.
So you must either make all the ads the same dimensions eg square like the HP sytle and place them at the top, or skinny and long like the Sony one and place them at the side.
That's what we're try to say and, hex on me for saying so, but what the Site owners aren't seeing.
And surely it's not the advertisers who should be calling the shots on what shape the ads are ?
Surely if they want to advertise they're product then they fit in to the dimension that your guys specify ??
Plus currently the ads seem to be the block square one 9/10 times thus resulting in the big strip of white.
Yes, I did mention it prior to this. I don't recall which threads. I've been responding to so many since the upgrade that I can't keep em straightQuote:
Originally Posted by Nix
No, not at all. They have a completed ad they bring to us and we are to find space for it.
I don't think the expanding ads have been loaded yet for this server.
It isn't too much to ask the advertisers to give you ads that would conform to the specs of vb3.07 so you could then satisfy the inmates, is it?
I didn't say it wasn't mentioned, I said it wasn't clearly explained.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPNYC
As far as the second point are you saying that if they cam to you with an ad that was 800x600 you would have to find a place to fit it !!!!
I don't think so.
As that would be a full screen ad for the poor folks using 800x600 resolution.
And if they are coming to JM management with that sort of demand then I think someone up there needs to have the guts to tell them where to stick it.
Sorry, but no manner of advertising $ gives them the right to take over the control of the website layout and design as far as I'm concerned.
I'm afraid so. They don't design ads for us. They don't advertise just on our forums. Their design dept. comes up with an ad, then they buy space to display it. Anyway it has nothing to do with the software version at all. It's the fact that the ad will expand to 2 to 3x it's current height. That's why it's not on top.
Please provide us with an email address for complaints.
Just like I can compain to any company, government office, government official via direct channnels, I think it's time we were given the opportunity to do the same with JM.
That would be my email address. All forum complaints are supposed to go to me.
How do we send an email to JM's CEO Alan Meckler ?
I can't seem to find a Contact Us option anywhere on the various JM links from the bottom of this page ?
So we can't contact any of these fold http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/executive.html ??
And if we send an email to any of those at the bottom they'd probably get lost in someones mail box along the way ??