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

[Cheiromancer]

I'm not having trouble with the ads anymore. But then again, I just changed to Mozilla. Did they fix it, or did the browser change do the trick?

[edit]1280 x 768... I don't think I changed it... Oh, wait. I think it was my Mom's computer, and 1024 width wasn't enough. Never mind. [/edit]

 

[ssampier]

I'm using Firefox on 1024 x 768 width resolution and it's still present. It's REALLY annoying trying to read the (newly) raised review section.

As before, I am all for EnWorld getting more money. But please have kindness on us lowly resolution users. Of course, my laptop with 1280 x 1024 screen (widescreen) does not have this problem.

 

[ssampier]

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

I just notice this.

That's strange. Doesn't the free GIMP support transparency?

Try it here:

http://www.gimp.org/
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

 

[Maldin]

I'd like to add my "me too"... or rather my "me 52". I came looking for this forum specifically to comment on this exceedingly annoying ad, and I wasn't surprised to find a rather lengthy thread about it already in existence.

It goes without saying that Enworld should absolutely place up front size requirements on banner sizes coming from advertisers. I'm surprised that they already don't have such requirements. Tell Wizo to send you a new banner. It'll take their "Flash dude" minutes to shrink it. Heck, can't Enworld shrink its boundary window?

Denis, aka "Maldin"
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[andargor]

Egads, my view of the forums is way stretched as well. I'm using Stealth, and, yes, Firefox w/Adblock.

 

[Piratecat]

Just letting you guys know that we're aware of the problem. Morrus is on vacation this week, so we'll go over it and figure out our options. We really like the WotC ads, but I'm sure there's a way to set them so that folks don't have to scroll.

 

[Maldin]

Cool.
They do look nice, though, when the annoyance factor is gone (my work machine has a 1280 screen).

Denis, aka "Maldin"
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[jonesy]

We really like the WotC ads, but I'm sure there's a way to set them so that folks don't have to scroll.

Make the EnWorld logo shorter? I'm noticing it has about twice the amount of black space than the extra space the WotC ad adds. At least on my screen.

Or would that affect something else?

 

[Desdichado]

Make the EnWorld logo shorter? I'm noticing it has about twice the amount of black space than the extra space the WotC ad adds. At least on my screen.

Ditto. There's a lot of wasted real estate associated with the ENW logo itself on my screen too.

For what it's worth, rpg.net has the exact same WotC banner ad, and it doesn't cause any stretching there because the rpg.net logo is considerably smaller than ours.

 

[BOZ]

Make the EnWorld logo shorter?

why should we have to be the one to give anything up?