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Twiss
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 Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:33 am Post subject: New look difflock
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I'm in favour of generating extra revenue for you guys and all that...
...but do the adverts have to be down the side? It looks horrible 
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Tiny One
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:02 am Post subject:
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at least even it up a tad and put them both sides closer to the forum by reducing the borders.
Good idea though!
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ScottieJ
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:04 am Post subject:
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| It's a bit IN YOUR FACE isn't it
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Timboh81
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:15 am Post subject:
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Not another forum falling to the advertising bug....  ...
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:
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If you reduced the borders, you could get all the ads up the side spread across the top...
Unless you've already got a deal to show the top/bottom ad twice...
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ed
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:12 pm Post subject:
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its not that bad - better than the other option of putting your hand in your pocket and paying for a subscription.
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its GED
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:17 pm Post subject:
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| ScottieJ wrote: | | It's a bit IN YOUR FACE isn't it |
i thought that was the purpose of advertising.?
i can see the need, the reason and the motive, but it sort of looks
cheap?
like a kid has done it..
sorry. 
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:30 pm Post subject:
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| ed wrote: | | its not that bad - better than the other option of putting your hand in your pocket and paying for a subscription. |
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ScottieJ
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:47 pm Post subject:
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| its GED wrote: | | ScottieJ wrote: | | It's a bit IN YOUR FACE isn't it |
i thought that was the purpose of advertising.?
i can see the need, the reason and the motive, but it sort of looks
cheap?
like a kid has done it..
sorry. |
Maybe! but not when you loose 1/4 of the screen, On my phone it takes up about 1/3 of the screen.
I just dont really see the need for it to take up that much of the screen width.
what was wrong with banners at the top and bottom of the screen?
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:47 pm Post subject:
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Yeah Ian that's fair enough...
There's not much in the Difflock shop for zookies though...
I will buy a sticker at some point though 
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:10 pm Post subject:
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Oh... easy fix for you...
Look in:
"templates/SubSilver/ViewForum_Body.tpl"
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"templates/SubSilver/ViewTopic_Body.tpl"
This will leave a 5px gap on each side of the images...
Either that or try "width=200" for a little bit extra
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clbarclay
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:39 pm Post subject:
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Using a low resolution monitor and with a picture 800 pixel or wider in the thread, the side adverts effectively disappear off the screen (obviously doesn't make much difference to people with bigger monitors). If the adverts were on the other side then it would be very irritating though having to keep scrolling across to see larger pictures.
It doesn't help though that every time I look at a thread I have to scroll down to know its there now that the forum header and adverts take up pretty much a whole screen. Better than a subscription though.
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XrHiNo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:45 pm Post subject:
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| its GED wrote: |
i can see the need, the reason and the motive, but it sort of looks
cheap?
like a kid has done it..
sorry. |
It's the yellow banner... the rest looks ok but it does kind of squeeze the forum over to the left.
I feel like I need to shuffle my chair over a bit 
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ScottieJ
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject:
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I don't see why a subscription would ever be needed, forums cost hardly anything to run and its not like oec international can't afford it!
Most forums that charge an optional subscription use it to fund events etc. and/or pay insurance for those events. sites like pirate use it for pirate4x4 tv and all the things they put back into American offroading like land use campaigns and events likes koh.
Im sure I'm not the only one thinking that either.
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:24 pm Post subject:
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Another issue is that it will increase the amount of
PHPBB3: Critical Error
Could not connect to database.
Every time a user loads a topic page, or the main page, it's going to initiate a connection to the database per advert image it loads.
I've been battling against the error message for like 10 minutes now 
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mrcheese
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject:
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Been having those errors for a while now. But more of them today.
Apart from that, the new look is not realy bothering me at all.
Give it a while and it will seem normal.
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micky1
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject:
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if the ads are required so be it. But cn they be a little better orgnised on the page
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Naughty T
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject:
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I totally understand why the ads are there i just think it could look neater,right now it all looks rushed and thrown together.
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject:
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Side advert - £300/month
top/bottom banners - £1194/month
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Sally Lacey
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:42 pm Post subject:
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if you are going to quote figures these should be put into context...i.e. how long / position / section.
for example you could equally have stated that if someone wanted to advertise for 12 months the cost is £2.00/day for a side advert...
it depends on the reaction sought from referencing figures
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject:
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Sorry anton, I just put in a month for each...
Are the figures right on the form? I just looked at 12-month top/bottom banners and it came up:
£8955.00
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Twiss
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject:
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Oh... that's the home page ad space
but that works out at £24.53 a day
Side ad seems to work out £2.44/day over a 12 month period
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XrHiNo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject:
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| Bargain!!!
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Winnet
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject:
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| ScottieJ wrote: | I don't see why a subscription would ever be needed, forums cost hardly anything to run and its not like oec international can't afford it!
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They cost a lot more than you think and given the popularity of Difflock bandwidth useage would high (with associated costs). It would be nice to live off of somebody else but somebody has to pay at some point.
time to head off to the shop.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject:
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But could we not go back to the adverts that appeared across the screen like in the old days?
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ScottieJ
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:48 pm Post subject:
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| Winnet wrote: | | ScottieJ wrote: | I don't see why a subscription would ever be needed, forums cost hardly anything to run and its not like oec international can't afford it!
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They cost a lot more than you think and given the popularity of Difflock bandwidth useage would high (with associated costs). It would be nice to live off of somebody else but somebody has to pay at some point.
time to head off to the shop.
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I do know how much they cost I help to run one  Yes I can understand difflock is a very busy forum (huge compared to the one I help with), but still i doubt its a huge amount that isn't easily covered with the income from the difflock shop, especially now its owned by a company like oec international. The forum cost a probably a tiny spec on the companies outgoings every year.
I see we all agree that the old advertising set up was better though.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:58 pm Post subject:
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I see we all agree that the old advertising set up was better though. |
nope, never said that 
the ads work, i`ve seen some stuff there that i will look into more, so they are doing their job, just needs tweaking a bit.
and i`m stuffed all ways as i use a 24" widescreen monitor set to 1920x1080.
so if you think they are annoying on a 19" monitor...........
off to look at a readywelder now. dont need one as such but the pic says i do
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject:
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| ScottieJ wrote: | | especially now its owned by a company like oem international. |
i take that back, mebbe the advertising doesnt work after all...................
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:04 pm Post subject:
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New look? More like a bodged old one.
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