Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples: - http://jquery.com/ (bottom) - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom) - http://www.yiiframework.com/ - http://primefaces.org/ - https://www.freeswitch.org/ Please chime in! Andrei

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-07 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:57:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples: - http://jquery.com/ (bottom) - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom) - http://www.yiiframework.com/ - http://primefaces.org/ -

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-07 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:57:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples: - http://jquery.com/ (bottom) - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom) - http://www.yiiframework.com/ - http://primefaces.org/ -

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-07 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:57:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples: - http://jquery.com/ (bottom) - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom) - http://www.yiiframework.com/ - http://primefaces.org/ -

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-07 Thread Andre Kostur via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 18:27:46 UTC, Piotrek wrote: I would put it under the tweets or even over them. I think the bottom is somehow counter-advertising. In my view, natural position for recommended books (or other products) are on the side panel. I'm with you... I think something like

Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
Hello, Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook on http://dlang.org/ or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties depending on the ads' prominence. I estimate that would be low in absolute numbers, and would probably

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d
Hi, I see no problem with advertising this book if the publisher's bussness isn't shady and the ad is only a pure (let's keep it the D way) link - I mean no eveil spying tech behind that or something similar. At first look this seems to be a great work and deserves advertising. I hope

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread w0rp via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:13:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook on http://dlang.org/ or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties depending on the ads' prominence. I

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook on http://dlang.org/ or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties depending on the ads' prominence. I estimate that would be low in

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
It will benefit everyone in D community one way or another.

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 5/6/2014 12:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I wanted to ask the community how they'd feel about this. The ads would only advertise Adam's book and we'd have leeway with format and size. As long as there's no sound/animation/malware, then it sounds like a great idea. Non-commercial OSS

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d
On 5/6/14, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d@puremagic.com wrote: I wanted to ask the community how they'd feel about this. Go for it. It's great to see more D books.

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 05/06/2014 09:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook on http://dlang.org/ or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties depending on the ads' prominence. I estimate that would be

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:13:35 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Hello, Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook on http://dlang.org/ or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
I was gonna ask you all to put it on the community-links page anyway, so if they're willing to cut you in a piece of the action, so much the better. Though I agree that if it is flashy or noisy, say no. I was just thinking text link and I'd be ok with an image link too, but any javascript or

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 21:33:54 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Though I agree that if it is flashy or noisy, say no. I was just thinking text link and I'd be ok with an image link too, but any javascript or flash stuff, forget that. IMO, image is a must. I hate text ads. Personally, I

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 22:53:21 UTC, Piotrek wrote: IMO, image is a must. I hate text ads. I was thinking just a link like we have here now: http://digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html but whatever works

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 05/06/2014 04:07 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 22:53:21 UTC, Piotrek wrote: IMO, image is a must. I hate text ads. I was thinking just a link like we have here now: http://digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html but whatever works I think that works. The publisher will get

Re: Advertising D Cookbook on http://dlang.org or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books

2014-05-06 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 7/05/2014 4:13 a.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook on http://dlang.org/ or http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties depending on the ads' prominence. I estimate that would