MERGED -- "Dragons: Worlds Afire" ad causes horizontal scrollbar

[Steverooo]

Good news - ENworld is getting banner ads from WotC. Woo Hoo!

Bad news - they need to be able to specify the size of their ads, which is introducing the dreaded horizontal scrollbar for many of us. I'm currently asking in the staff forum about potential workarounds that could be considered, but can't promise anything.

I'll let you know if I hear anything more

It was interesting, the last D&D Advisory Panel Survey I took part in... They were asking which products you had heard of, and where... ENWorld was one of the options!

 

[MarkB]

Yeah, it's pretty annoying. Couldn't you move the banner over to the left a bit, there seems to be room between it and the ENWorld logo. Or simply not show the ENWorld logo when you show the WOTC one? I have to say, this renders the forums almost unusable.

Or alternatively just shove it onto its own line, above or below the logo. It really is being a headache at the moment.

 

[GQuail]

I had been wondering why this was happening over the past few days: I wasn't birght enough to work out it was only happenign with that ad. ;-)

Like others have said, I dunno if maybe moving it to the left or something is the way to go: I see there's a big hefty transparent chunk of the ENWorld logo, though, presumably to keep "normal" banners in the right place. I suspect it's going to be a pest to fix it without knacking the rest of the adverts.

 

[Twin Rose]

Like others have said, I dunno if maybe moving it to the left or something is the way to go: I see there's a big hefty transparent chunk of the ENWorld logo, though, presumably to keep "normal" banners in the right place. I suspect it's going to be a pest to fix it without knacking the rest of the adverts.

I tried to make a 200 width gif, but my image editor won't let me save transparency. (Doh!) Which means trying to size it to 200 changes the image. I definately would like to do that but.. Lacking the tools, I have no way of doing it

 

[jonesy]

I am assuming that only those using 800x600 Resolution are affected by this.

Actually, my screen resolution 1024 x 768, and it still streches. 15% of EnWorld is off the screen on my display. :\

 

[SolitonMan]

I was just about to post about this as well. I'm not sure how the banner ad is picked for display on a page, but if it's a random sort of thing, would it be possible to create a secondary ENWorld logo to coincide specifically with the appearance of the troublesome ad so that the width of the page isn't pushed beyond the border of the browser? I have to agree, although it's a minor amount of movement (in my 1024x768 setting), it is making it really annoying to use the site while the ad is showing.

View Sourcing the page shows that the ad is stored in an IFRAME tag, which seems to draw the image for the ad from the doubleclick website...suggesting that there isn't complete control of the image on the ENWorld server. The IFRAME itself has a width of 730, but I can't quite tell if it's getting stretched or not...would it be possible to set the site logo's width to "*" or something similar to dynamically resize to fill the available space? Or remove the width and height attributes from the logo image altogether to acheive this effect? It'll be easier than writing code to figure out when to insert an alternative image, but the end result, I suspect, would be a constantly resizing logo. If it works at all.

Which I can live with, actually, as long as I don't have to horizontal scroll.

Just my $0.02.

Dave

 

[jaerdaph]

I was just about to post about this too when I saw this thread.

Yeah, it is pretty annoying, so any fix or workaround would of course be most appreciated.

Congratulations on the WotC Ad account, BTW.

 

[Klaus]

Or alternatively just shove it onto its own line, above or below the logo. It really is being a headache at the moment.

This seems the best solution to me.

And yeah, I was about to post a thread on this, so instead I'll just jump onto the "it's very annoying" bandwagon.

 

[jeffh]

Actually, my screen resolution 1024 x 768, and it still streches. 15% of EnWorld is off the screen on my display. :\

Same here. I browse with my taskbar on the side of the screen rather than the bottom (something a lot of Web sites don't take into consideration). HTML is supposed to reflow and resize to fit the user's window, but a lot of the fancy doodads people are adding to Web pages in recent years don't work that way.

ENWorld just needs to set a firm policy on what size ads can be and stick to it.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

This seems the best solution to me.

And yeah, I was about to post a thread on this, so instead I'll just jump onto the "it's very annoying" bandwagon.

Yes, it's very annoying. Just finished a thread about novel recommendations over in the Media Lounge and had to scroll over to see who posted what. There should be a specification on banner ad sizes.