From having worked with banners quite a bit, i have a basic set of rules:
1. Sound is opt in, not opt out. If there's a movie, have sound off by
default.
2. No on(rollOver) functionality beyond pure fluff. No sound on roll
over. EVER.
3. An animated flash banner is bound to be put right next to other
animated flash banners: Keep cpu use *down*
Following these have kept my clients f-u ratings down quite a bit. I'm
not sure if "COMPANYNAME+loud techno music" on rollOver generates sales
but.. Hmm.. Actually i'm pretty sure it doesn't.
I don't mind banners. I'm actually a little suspicious of some sites
that are without them, as though you can judge a site's clientele by the
advertising. Ads by google are in some cases a kind of validation of the
site.
I think banners are potential Lovecraftian horrors, capable of
instilling the dark night of the soul, but at their essence they are a
mechanism of the www just as much as a radio button in a form. I
consider them facial features of large websites. If the banners are
tasteful and unintrusive, that's smooth skin right there, if you got
fricken.. Jamba shit going all bananas on your ass, that's the biggest
bulging runny pimple of them all.
- Andreas
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I agree - but we dont live in a perfect world and not all websites can be
google. And if they were it would be a pretty grey/vnial/boring world.
I do understand you might feel that flash based ads are intrusive - but you need
to accpet them as just an important part of the online landscape as google
keywords. Wether you coose to belive me or not they do work.
on 10/11/05 12:05 AM, Flashcoders mailing list
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Jakob Nielsen said it best; "Google's done well because they made ads that
aren't annoying." Google ads can remain on a webpage and allow me to read
without giving me a seizure, nor to do they appear over the top of my
webpage that I'm reading with no discernable close button.
Google has not become the billion dollar company they are because of ads;
they became that because of good search capabilities, ads that are relevant
& not distracting, and allowing others to share in the revenue they
generate.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Expandable banners
something to consider is that google works off adds. If it weren't for
thier adds you would have to pay for it. Same with Yahoo. I could keep
going but I won't. I agree with pete here. I don't like adds being
everywhere, but I do see the purpose and so I accept it. Its easy
enough to ignor. Sometimes you'll get lucky and find something
interesting. But if you don't, just ignor it. Flash banners, java
script banners, basic jpeg/gif banners really arn't that much
different. The flash ones are just more fun to play with. ;) Personaly
I'd hate it if they got rid of banner advertising. They would probably
go back to pop ups everywhere wich is even more anoying. Oh, and some
of us arn't rich and can't afford to pay for every site we go to.
Daniel
ryanm wrote:
But when the quality of programming on TVnose dives,
You mean it gets worse than America's Next Top Model and The
Biggest Loser? 8-O
Right now I pay $12.99 a month for high quality programming without
commercials, it's called HBO.
it costs you $60 to go to the movies,
At $9 a ticket we're not far from that now.
a daily news papaer is $10 a day,
Like I'd pay to read that crap...
and finaly you have to pay $99 per month just to use your favour
websites
(that used to be free)
The good ones don't need ads. If you content is worth consuming,
people will pay to consume it.
ryanm
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