Post #33532 by hanford_lemoore on Thu, May 8, 2003 4:29 PM

What the hell are these ads doing on the top and bottom of Tiki Central?!!?!! Where will they draw the line? Who's responsible for this?

Oh, wait. I'm responsible.

First of all: these are not paid ads. No one has paid anything to have these up here.

Secondly, no one asked me to post them. I've had many offers for paid banners in the past and I've not yet stepped into that. I've posted these myself without anyone asking. And I post them becuase I think it does a service to the Tiki community at large.

Thirdly: They're pretty-much all on-topic. These aren't banners for Spycams or discount Viagra. They're tiki-related.

Fourthly: This is more or less a temporary design. I'm not a big fan of stacking banners all over the place. I'm working on something that will allow better placement of informational graphics like this. If you were a member of the Yahoo Tiki Central you remember that we always changed the image on the homepage to reflect the most recent book or event. I'm working on something like that. But that takes time, and it seems like a shame to not promote cool tiki stuff in the meantime.

If the file sizes or "stacking design" gets to be too much, or you have anything else you want to comment about it, please private message me and let me know.

Of course you're always free to post your comments here. But please keep your comments in this thread directed at me and the use of banners in general, rather than the people/places/products featured in the banners. They didn't ask me to post them, and they don't deserve critisim in this topic. (although I've not recieved one complaint about banners in the past ...)

Thanks for reading,

~Hanford Lemoore

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2003-05-08 16:31 ]