October 17, 2002
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Marc, Dan, and Monsur came up with a cool way to use all that Xangazon data we’ve all been putting into our blogs:
The #4 Book Right Now on Xanga!
The King Must Die
Check out all the top music, books and movies in the Xanga Top 50!
It looks like a banner, but it’s actually a text ad. Go CSS!
Eventually, we could even make the banner ad personalized to your sign-in. So if you subscribe to my site, your banner might say:
Hey suckah, did you know that John is reading
The King Must Die
Except we probably wouldn’t call you “suckah”. Maybe we’d pull your username, although to be honest that’s a little freaky. I’m just not used to seeing my name in banner ads. Would that weird you out too much?
Also, a quick technical question: does anyone know how to make the entire text-ad clickable? Maybe some sort of giant DIV tag or something?
Comments (16)
LOL Actually suckah doesn’t bug me too much!
Sorry I can’t help with the tag, I am one who still can’t get a skin to work. Oh for the days when plain html was enough.
Trying starting the a href command outside of the td command. Then you make the entire table data cell part of the link. use the /a command after the /td.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width=”100%” border=0 valign=”CENTER”>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD>
hey i love xanga and i am a premium member…but for some reason i cant add on a background, since i pay for premium i think it SHOULD work. im getting a bit annoyed by this, if you can email me and try to help with this i would really appreciat eit. i tried linking to the site with the backgrounds i also tried uploading using Xtools. I use IE6 as well as AOL 7.0 please email me!
LySsa
DIV, TABLE, TD, whatever, just throw an onClick(); handler in whatever you wrap the content in… wrapping an A around a table is bad form!
Well, sean, I’m formed badly, so there you go.
I’m sort of allergic to “personalized” recommendations, so knowing you’ve read a particular book doesn’t mean diddly to me unless it’s something you talked about on your blog and made it sound worth trying. And then I’d go to half.com to see if I can get it cheap.
Also – you’d want to add “cursor:pointer;” to your CSS style for the “banner” class, to make the mouse pointer indicate a clickable element. Shutting up now!
geez, I just stopped by for the HTML lesson!
i think you should keep “suckah”
No, seeing my name in a banner ad wouldn’t freak me. I got used to seeing it up in the corner of every Xanga site I visit, didn’t I? I finally signed onto Xangazon/Amazon Affiliates today, after checking it out longer than I really needed to. I like it.
After the little seanmeister game where he displayed readers names in his blogs, you may want to prepare for a lot of hate mail if you go this route.
Just wrap what you want clickable in an anchor tag. Like everything else. Recall what the C in CSS stands for.
OnClick() bad. Javascript linking bad. Don’t make me run IE just to respond to ads, and don’t make me run IE just to view the skins on the skin page.
I want to be able to turn off the ‘banner’ ad for Amazon. I don’t shop with them and probably never will.
Table with a onclick would do… me thinks…
i’m with sean on this one… the OnClick() should work for any browsers that are standards compatible (IE, NS, mozilla, etc.), i think. i’ll check and come back.
Homer, what are you using for a browser? i just tried it in mozilla (which is pretty close to the newer NS, 6.2 and up) and opera, and the skins worked fine. the only one i had a problem with was NS 4.08, which doesn’t really do too well with CSS or javascripting.
*LOL* i had that happen once, saw my name in a banner when i went to a site…….freaked me out at first
but it wouldn’t bother me here…i’m used to that from seanmeister!
“Go CSS!”
That made me laugh