Over-Advertising

[Esherido]

I can understand the need for advertising on the site and I don't care about a few little banner and block ads here and there. I was perfectly fine with the one column of ads on the right. But two columns of ads?!?! :m: It's almost as wide as the actual content area! I've always supported this site and its tutorials have been very helpful, but two columns of ads seems to be a bit of overkill.

[kirupa]

The site was actually made wider to accommodate it. The width of the content area has stayed the same. I did this because the site was having too many ads, and I really hated seeing them in a huge scrolling column. I wanted the site to be ad-free once you scroll down one screen (~ 1000 pixels), and since each tutorial page is around 3 or 4 screens in height, this seemed like a good enough solution.

[sekasi]

I actually don't see any ads at all : ) Some css rendering problem or something but it's just a blank bar.

.. not that I'm complaining.

[Esherido]

Ok, thanks for the quick explanation of what you did, I really appreciate it. :D Personally, I would prefer if the ads were only on the certain pages, but that's only personal opinion. I was more surprised than angry.

@sekasi: I actually use AdBlock Plus to block the ads, but I don't have it installed on Firefox on my Mac yet.

[randomagain]

Ummm they have got bigger

how much money are you raking in?

*pull out blackmail envelope*

[mlk]

@sekasi: I actually use AdBlock Plus to block the ads, but I don't have it installed on Firefox on my Mac yet.

Same here. The internet has been a little more pleasurable lately :party:

[TheCanadian]

I haven't been to the front page of the site in months but it has become pretty cluttered.

[Jeff Wheeler]

I haven't been to the front page of the site in months but it has become pretty cluttered.

I noticed the same thing yesterday.

[Esherido]

I wish we could rebel somehow. But the kMan has our hands tied with his cunning ways.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Heh, I don’t really mind. Like TheCanadian, I go there only once every few months.

[Esherido]

Maybe if we actually wrote some more tutorials for the site/front page, we would visit there more. (Jeff, you don't know how much I would appreciate a succinct "Intro to Django" tutorial, because I've read the entire Django Book, but I still don't feel smart enough.)

[TheCanadian]

I have like 500 tutorials in progress, but they've been like that for two years. Plus my IQ is already 87 billion so I don't need to read anymore tutorials.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Maybe if we actually wrote some more tutorials for the site/front page, we would visit there more. (Jeff, you don't know how much I would appreciate a succinct "Intro to Django" tutorial, because I've read the entire Django Book, but I still don't feel smart enough.)

They’re way better writers than me, I promise. :P

Have you followed the tutorial in the Django documentation, about the polls?

[gigaboost]

Ive never even noticed any ads at all :O

Well, there was this spam-advert for WoW gold...

[Esherido]

They’re way better writers than me, I promise. :P

Have you followed the tutorial in the Django documentation, about the polls?
Yeah, I'm good with Django and all, but the words of the great Jeff always makes things nicer.

[TheCanadian]

Even though %40 of it is ads?

[Esherido]

Even though %40 of it is ads?
Not even ads can dilute the pure devness that is Jeff. (I should start a religion. :pope:)

[ShadowViper]

Not even ads can dilute the pure devness that is Jeff. (I should start a religion. :pope:)

By religion, you mean cult? :P

[REEF·]

Basically,

the fans care.

The guy raking in 50,000USD a month doesn't need to. K-dawg is ballin.

[Pasquale]

I've never really payed attention to this all.