Unless you are desperate for ad revenue, it is always best to start without ads and stick them in when everything is running well. Use Google Analytics to work out where you are going to stick the adverts, when the revenue makes them worthwhile. You may, or may not find these Barlesque guidelines useful:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/desed/visual_language.shtml 2009/7/16 Jordan <[email protected]> > Thanks for the feedback so far. Project Kangaroo was certainly my > inspiration, I was pretty gutted when it was put on hold. > > The advert is something I'm a little confused about, i did find this > in the BBC Backstage FAQ: > > "generic advertising such as adwords on your site where you are > hosting your idea or prototype is fine, so long as it is not > specifically related to your prototype, service, or idea." > > The advert on the page is run by google adwords, so I guess this is > fine, however by nature Google targets these ads based around your > content so it's hard no to have them 'relate' to what's on the site. > > And BBC glow looks promising too, I have little-to-no javascript > experience though, I've only just started learning jQuery for the > purpose of that site, are there any reccomendations on how I could > improve the presentation of the content? > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please send an email to [email protected] with > unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message. > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
