- Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:56 pm
#35454
Sorry, man. I got in a hurry to go take care of something and did not measure my last words very carefully (words placed at the beginning of my previous post actually). Hopefully those words about non-DRIVER stuff all over the place will not discourage any readers of this topic from visiting emmetmcl's ULTIMATE DRIVER website, which is strictly business when it comes to DRIVER game content. I guess I made it sound like your website is cluttered up with content having nothing to do with DRIVER, which is, of course, not the case.
There is this business of being, not really redirected but interrupted, I guess, by full-sized ad pages that open in your face, even though they do not prevent the ULTIMATE DRIVER page you have just clicked on from opening as well. Like Dr. Doom, I found it pretty annoying, and I can only imagine that others who encounter that might be inclined, as Dr. Doom and I were, to regard that as part of the ULTIMATE DRIVER website experience, even though it really is not. That reaction on my part has influenced me to go less often than I otherwise might to look at what is, to me, a genuinely fine DRIVER website. (What do you guys call it, fansite?)
There is, however, some ad space that is situated right in the middle of the actual ULTIMATE DRIVER web pages, as opposed to being displayed above the header. I guess that sort of thing does not seem so bad at places where the pages are divided up into boxes (frames or whatever) so that the ads are merely displayed alongside the articles, etc. At ULTIMATE DRIVER that ad space sort of breaks up the page visually.
That is part of why I was wondering if you get revenue from ads or if it is just the price, so to speak, of being hosted. Is it more effective to have ads placed in the middle of the pages instead of out of the way, like at DriverMadness.net? Even if more people look at and click on ads located in the midst of content, does that come at the risk of unintentionally discouraging people from viewing the website further or returning to the website? Is the positioning of the ad space arbitrary or do you select where it is displayed, man?
Are the hyperlinks generated by the text something that just happens or is it something you chose from available features?
I hope you do not mind the questions, emmetmcl. I have one more, though. Is emmetmcl how we should address you, or do we write emmet or Emmet or something?
Emmet will do just fine.
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