it's arrived

Gavin

Lovely new ad. Only just noticed it now. Seems a bit odd. It was doing lovely mouse action there a few minutes ago, now it's just a blank white. When it was doing it's mousey thing though, the drop down menu's were hidden behind it and if i clicked on one, it went to the ad.

Gav

[edit] sorry yeah. running ie6 on win2000 [/edit]

WhiteWashMan

can yo umake that really big, and put it over the ireland offline forum?
i mean they may object, but due to thte fact that i have dsl and cable for a combined cost of 45 quid a month, im not too bothered.....

Saruman

yeah i have both Opera and IE 5.5 and the menu gets hidden behind the add in both.. apart from that its not so bad... and if it brings money to the boards.. fair play...

Saruman

looks like its sorted by moving the menu below the ad

smoke.me.a.kipper

i have yet to see this ad. where is it?

strat

no add here
win 95 ie 5.0
dont think there any ad stopoping software here

Saruman

At the moment its in the top right corner above your userCP, register, calender etc.. buttons.

Refresh and see if it appears?

Saruman

hmmm its gone.. now the boards one is there... interesting.. must be working on the glitches... was there and working.. i clicked it to see if they changed the prices.. small chance.. ah well

DeVore

Yes its only there in the cloud skin for the moment.

We're testing it alright.
Personally I think its a scream that Eircom are funding their bitter enemies the IOFFL's discussion forums (in a round about way).

Anyway, its a free world and they are free to try and convince us that their product is worth buying.

And to pay us cash.

DeV.

Cake Fiend

Tom's sold his soul to the devil!

smoke.me.a.kipper

turned on cloud scheme to see the ads. kúdos to admins for keeping them tidy up there. i dont see a problem with them at all. kúdos.

RopeDrink

Looks nice to me...
In the cafe right now, and Boards seemed to be having a slight problem loading - Blamed it on the bugger behind me downloading mp3's but now I can blame you lot for forgetting to get the spanner out of the works...

Anyhow, problems gone and all is well - looks quite dandy indeed.

Winters

Originally posted by DeVore

I think its a scream that Eircom are funding their bitter enemies the IOFFL's discussion forums (in a round about way).

I wonder if they knew it was going to happen? You should change it so the flash ad allows you to shoot the mouse as it goes by

Spunog UIE

i think ya should put the nav above the banner ad and the boards.ie logo. I just prefere the look and feel of having the nav at the very very top of the page.

DeVore

the problem then (as highlighted) is that the navigation is obscured by the flash layer...

I kinda like it the way it is anyway.

DeV.

Spunog UIE

<param name="wmode" value="transparent">

stickin this in the flash would make the menu go over it, can't remember if it works in other browsers other than IE tho.

DeVore

omg. That may be the first time ever a user has complained about something, had it explained and then suggested a different solution.

I'm going to have to lie down.

Well, now.... there are a few things we have to do (the ad is coming from Online.ie and they get it from Double Click) so we might have to ask them to do this but its worth a shot because then we can put the nav back on top and show ads when we need to and dont when we dont have any to show.

Neat. Um, way to go Gideon

DeV.

JustHalf

By the way, the boards.ie ad opens a new view of www.boards.ie IN THE IFRAME.

Perhaps boards could have a no-ads subscription service sometime?

DeVore

yeah we noticed that but since you are already on Boards we dont really mind, its just a place holder to make up the other 9 page impressions out of 10 before showing the ad again.

(yes we tried a transparent gif but the iframe code messed it up...)

Yes we hope to have the sign up up in the next month or two, then we will have skins available which will not carry the ad code.

anyway, this will gone in about 3 weeks.

DeV.

Kraken

looks nice will take a bit of getting used to but hey we will live.

dahamsta

(yes we tried a transparent gif but the iframe code messed it up...)

Use a blank webpage.

adam

DeVore

and set it to what colour? Black for the Cloud skin? White for the default one? Blue for Krpytonian?

Didnt think of that did you Mr smartypants

(we're not totally thick here )

DeV.

dahamsta

I'll leave it to Cloud to embarrass and degrade your lack of skillz DeV...

adam

[Actually I won't, on the fairly reasonable assumption that my cries of "I told you so" will be lambasted later: You can pull the background colour for the skin and add it to the QUERY_STRING in the URL for the IFRAME. You can then set the background colour using Javascript (location.search) in the IFRAME. Or PHP, but Javascript would be less processor intensive.

<adam blows a raspberry at DeV>

heh]

smoke.me.a.kipper

i see that it's now in my prefered style set kryptonian. i prefer the menu below the ad btw. nice work admins.

Inspector Gadget

...if I understand this correctly, we've got this situation; either we go with:

nav below flash: working fine = zero effort required
nav above flash: problematic because flash layer appears above the DHTML one the menu is using. Requires effort on the part of multiple people to get working.

Where's the problem here? What's wrong with the nav being below the ad? It's still above the posts, so why not just leave it alone if it works and the other solution is more hassle?

Gadget

sceptre

Heh, just had a thought.

Eircom can now have a slogan that runs something like "The Eircom rat is a proud supporter of IrelandOffline - supporting the campaign for cheaper Internet access"


NOOOOOOO


I suppose I could change my email sig to include: "IrelandOffline's forum is partly supported by the Mouse"

DeVore

what about "Eircom inadvertently do the right thing?"

DeV.

sceptre

"Eircom pull a Homer"?

http://www.pseudodictionary.com/search.php?letter=p&browsestart=680

Spunog UIE

pull a homer - Do something dumb like fall, and then do something like find a dime on the floor because of your fall.

ex. After he fell, he found a dime he said "I pulled a homer".

that's damn funny, quick to the humour board!

azezil

hardly even noticed it! just on turn of the roller ball and it's gone anyway

DeadBankClerk

*Ahem*

Add the line
127.0.0.1 adserver.digiserve.ie
to c:\winnt\system32\drivers\hosts
No more add

*Ahem*