| ....what? Location: Ontario, Canada Join Date: Aug 2003
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| Pop Ups
These things are horrible. My computer lags whenever a new window is open - it kind of pauses for a second. That's fine, but not when 7 ads are being opened at once! Plus, they always cover up the page you are viewing, and when there is lot's you go on a "'x' box closing attack", and you sometimes close your default browser window by mistake!
Pop Unders
Not as much as a pain in the way of covering up, but they still make the website lag and once your done browsing, you have to close about 100 windows!
Banner Ads
They are fine as long as they don't have mouseover effects. For example, the new Microsoft Scripting Ad that opens a big box over the window when you mouse over it, you have to be extra carfull where you move the mouse!
Small Advert Tiles
They aren't any different than banner ads, just smaller thats all. Sure mouseovers on these aren't as bad, but they still suck. If they are close to the topic of the website, they are tolerable.
Great Banner Ads
The best kind of banner ad is a simple gif. No mouseovers. No fancy Flash. No super graphics. No sound. Of course, it has to be close to the topic you are looking at. Small is preferable. If a mouseover is applied, make it only affect the box, not the whole website.
Overall
Overall, ads suck. But if you run a giant website and need to do so for buisness, the best advice I can give you is:
1. Use small ads like the described banner ad above and post them on common websites.
2. When the user clicks the link, make it a normal hyperlink, no popups or anything else annoying.
3. Be simple in the hyperlink, make it go to your site, no spam site or other advertisments. They already clicked you ad, what more do you want?!
4. Once they reach your website, cut with the ads. All your doing is leading them away, one ad is enough.
5. Give them a choice. If they want to see more ads on what you offer, give them a choice to go see a page that contains what you offer. Do not force more ads on them once they go to your site.
6. Basically understand what people want to see and what they don't want to see. Before making an ad, go to other sites that have ads. What do you like, what don't you like? Get feedback. Then create.
That's about all, I hope this helped you - and good luck on your website.
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