What's up with the ads?

There was discussion in another thread that the ads forced the messages too far right, and you had to scroll to read everything.

 

Yes, that's exactly what has been happening to me.

 

What resolution are you running? As long as you're at 1024x768 or higher, you shouldn't have a problem.

 

I am at 1024x768, and I have to shut my favorites off to view without scrolling.

Thanks

 

Oh, you keep your favorites panel open at the left? Yeah, that could do it.

 

Yeah but.....that used to work before when the ads were on the right.

 

I don't keep my favorites open, and I still had this problem.

 

If you're viewing a thread that has some wide images posted in it, or some long strings of text with no spaces, it could cause the screen to go wider also.

 

It's a one week test by Joe.

 

I have them blocked anyway, it's just unusual to see the threads being pushed to the right.

 

Lol there is nothing wrong with our computers, you guys moved the adds over. It's not like all of the sudden all of our computer just screwed up at once . I have a wide screen ad its just about to push things over to scroll left and right lol.

 

With the ad on the right, it would still cause your browser to have a scrollbar across the bottom. You wouldn't need to scroll since the messages were on the left and the ad was on the right (unless you wanted to scroll to see the ad), but it has the same affect.

 

That's why I liked the ads on the right.

 

Are the advertisers paying more for the more visible real estate on the left?

 

You can change the screen resolution somewhere in the Settings and in certain threads if I recall correctly. I think 800x600 is the default setting.

 

I never really pay attention to the ads so I never remembered them being on the right.

 

Same here, never pay attention to any of the ads.

 

Nether did I, but what I did notice was that now I have to scroll to the right to view WA completely.

 

Maybe that's why they wanted to move them to the left, now they got your attention

I don't have a problem reading them this way with my screen resolution at the 1024x648 I just find it a bit hard getting use to with them on the right & I can see where Charlyee is having more of a problem by keeping the favorites opened vs the ad's being on the right.

 

For me it is like coming home after a hard day and looking forward to relaxing in my favorite chair, and then finding out my favorite chair has been moved......

 

Newer computers with XP have a 1024x768 standard. It's rare to have an 800x600 default. My laptop is 1280x768 standard because it has a wide screen.

 

I know what you mean Gideon, I have mine set to 1024x768 as well but by settings I meant the forum settings and not the XP Desktop settings.

 

Hey the ads got moved back to the right..... Whoever did it...thank you, thank you, thank you. :notworthy

 

Yeah! I like it too!

-Jay

 

Here's one I just saw...

 

Geez! While I was posting that this one came up...

 

You're more than welcome!!! I used my influence here to change it back!!!

 

Thanks to Joe for moving the ads back to the right. The visual appeal has improved

 

I also think it looks more visually appealing this way too!!! Thanks again...