Tooltip Ads

Originally posted by o0o The DEEJ o0o@Jun 24 2004, 02:39 AM

I'll gladly donate £10... whatever that ends up being in USD... In a couple of weeks that is once i get paid thus taking me back inside my overdraft limit lol!  I use A-S enough that I feel its only right to give something back.  Not overly keen on the popup ads, but if the money from them goes to pay for server/software upgrades then I don't really think that anyone should be complaining.

Cheers,

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One thing, though... I just noticed the ads scan the user group text as well... I think if at all possible Tim it might be a nice idea to just have the ad script scan the main body of the posts, and exclude sigs and user group text?

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Yes siry bob I'll fix that now.

#181361

ironicly, i'm seeing them in Firefox v.8, but not in IE lol but i don't mind them at all, just glad its not a virus :-P anything that keeps this site up is good by me.

#181373

i dont mind these little click ad's i jsut think its funny when i posted a message with the word linux in it, it gave an ad to microsoft windows 2003 server white paper

-bolero

#181807

Originally posted by bolero@Jun 25 2004, 10:38 PM

i dont mind these little click ad's i jsut think its funny when i posted a message with the word linux in it, it gave an ad to microsoft windows 2003 server white paper

-bolero

Strange, even though Microsoft is starting to go open source (but that's another story).

Timmie, maybe you should change the link colour as well? Maybe a blue colour like #006699 (okay I like this type of blue).

EDIT: Strange, Microsoft wasn't lit up with an ad.

#181816

Originally posted by kjwebb@Jun 25 2004, 09:25 AM

Strange, even though Microsoft is starting to go open source (but that's another story).

Timmie, maybe you should change the link colour as well? Maybe a blue colour like #006699 (okay I like this type of blue).

EDIT: Strange, Microsoft wasn't lit up with an ad.

I'll change it tonight, got a busy day

#181818

Originally posted by kjwebb@Jun 25 2004, 01:25 PM

Strange, even though Microsoft is starting to go open source (but that's another story).

sic.

shared source: here have this, we'll sue you in ten years.

#181819

Just make sure it's visibly different than the default colour for normal links

#181820

Originally posted by Ken@Jun 25 2004, 11:30 PM

Just make sure it's visibly different than the default colour for normal links

Well, Timmie just needs to change the colour to the one that I gave him.

It's different to the rest of the sites links.

#181823

Great, now they look just like regular links. I can't tell them apart now. :6

// Lou

#182240

Links are black :S,

the tooltips should now be somewhat aqualike, I added a pinstripe bg, and changed the font.

#182242

Originally posted by Timan@Jun 26 2004, 09:10 AM

Links are black :S,

the tooltips should now be somewhat aqualike, I added a pinstripe bg, and changed the font.

Links are black, but the tooltip is still yeller.

// Lou

#182245

Originally posted by Lou@Jun 27 2004, 12:13 AM

Links are black, but the tooltip is still yeller.

// Lou

Black?

I saw blue for the links and the tooltips are yellow (and it's 1:37am).

#182268

Originally posted by kjwebb@Jun 26 2004, 11:37 AM

Black?

I saw blue for the links and the tooltips are yellow (and it's 1:37am).

Regular links are black, Lou stated they look like regular links,

Yea some reason the pin stripe isn't showing up anymore, I had it looking all pretty .

#182278

Ah I'm sorry I finally loaded Firefox today and the text ads to look the same like regular links, I'll fix that for you guys today, sorry about that.

#182579

so what ones are there?

microsoft virus CPU MSDN update what else?

#182581

yeah seriously. does it do anything if we click on the ads or do you jsut get money from them being there?

oh and a donate button would be cool. paypal takes money away from you to use and its a bit outdated (people are getting defrauded....search gamespot about it if u care) but a mailing address or something at the least.

neways, sorry for posting another topic like this, i SERIOUSLY didnt see it...didnt understand what Tooltip Ads was referring to so i just posted...sorry.

#182800

Originally posted by Timan@Jun 22 2004, 07:38 AM

Would it help if I made em more aqua like?

yes. they S-U-C-K NOW!!!!!!!!!

#182854

I noticed another thing.

The Ad's appear in the titlebar section (ie. the "Replying to Tooltip Ads" bit).

It really looks strange.

#182866

how much do the tooltips get you? and does it affect it if i click on em? i'll gladly ysit there for a fwe minutes before i use the site and just go around clickin to get yall a few bux every day.

#182886

Im using FireFox and they appear to me... well actually they stopped now

Wierd things... More aqua-like would be good for the site but Id prefer it if the sponsered links would just be a different colour so like regular post links black and sponsered links blue because I keep clicking these links by accident.

I havnt noticed the pages loading any slower but when you move your mouse cusor over the links it take a couple of seconds to load the information during which my mouse freezes then if I click it freezes my computer while it loads which take a long time!

I to would suggest a donate button Ive been waiting for the chance for ages I regularly donate to sites to show my gratitude. My donations have hit 3 figures a few times if I use the site alot, too many people expect these sites to be free and moan when ads appear these things costs ridiculous amounts of money. I dont mind ads just aslong as they fit in with the site and they dont stick out like big yellow flashing pop-ups......

The badge idea would certainly bring in donations as alot here seem to want them

#183003

I would also donate.

But: i don't have a credit card - maybe I could help somewhere in the forums. dunno.

#183715

If it helps keep the site up add as much ads as you want! I am not kidding.

I mean I think it's better than having the site shut dwon.... :cry: Or even having it momentarilly closed becuase of Bandwith issues. I would die if I go one day with out you guys.. ( No I'm not gay!

So don't worry.

#183788

I don't mind the little ad links... anything to help this great site! What bugs me is the short freezes right after a page loads (Firefox). >.

#186647

FireFox regularly ask me to kill the script also... really being a pain, freeze + firefox warning.

#188880

Unless you guys can fix up the script and not make Firefox freeze, I'm going to block it with the Adblock extention. I know the ads are to support Aqua-Soft, but the freezes really get in the way of surfing the site. >.

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