No More Adverts at the Bulb Museum!

Chris M.

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I finally got sick to death of those stupid annoying pop up windows that plague my Bulb-museum web site. Coupled with a special offer from Tripod offering twice the normal storage space for upgraded sites (till the end of April), I just upgraded to the paid-for "Tripod Plus" account. OK, so it costs 5 bucks a month, but compared to some hosting packages, that`s downright cheap! This means not only do my pages remain commercial-free, but I also get 3 times the monthly bandwidth allowance (3 gigs) and hopefully my pics can be externally hotlinked. Let`s see....

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I won`t use the space to host my pics for CPF, but should anyone wish to refer to any pics they see, they now can. The same will be true for the Torch site.


Of course, there won`t be much flashlight-related stuff at electriclights.tripod.com soon. But that`s another story.

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The_LED_Museum

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Looks like it worked. I can see your ruby red bulb up there.

Glad those pop-ups are gone too. They recently started harassing you with not one, but TWO of the asinine, bandwidth-sucking, resouce-hogging POSMF's. And if you forget to close them when you're finished, they keep updating once a minute or so, making everything else run deathly slow.
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Chris M.

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They recently started harassing you with not one, but TWO of the asinine, bandwidth-sucking, resouce-hogging POSMF's.

Tell me about it - that was really the final straw. They did it to me first a little while back but then it went back to just 1 fairly soon- so I thought that was OK, maybe they got too many complaints or something.....then it was back. Aargh! Well not any more.
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I`d`ve upgraded ages ago but I`d only have got half the space my old free account had- so today`s special offer announcement (essentially 50mb for the price of 25) gave me the final nudge to open my wallet and reach for the debit card. If I drink one less bottle of beer a week, I`ll save more than I have to pay to maintain that site. And I am too fat....

It`s a small price to pay for the happiness of my visitors, and I reckon it makes the whole site seem that little bit more proffessional too.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chris M.:

It`s a small price to pay for the happiness of my visitors, and I reckon it makes the whole site seem that little bit more proffessional too.
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I don't mind banner ads at all - it's just pop-ups, pop-downs, exit pop-ups, and Java (adforce, doubleclick, etc.) "page within a page" ads. Those are almost as bad as pop-ups because they just kill your scrolling speed. All of the ads on my site are simple .GIF graphics with a straightforward link - nothing more. And that's how I'd like to keep it.

The day I agree to put a 'Doubleclick' java-enabled user-tracking page-within-a-page with pop-down exit ad on my site is the day I throw my computer in the dipsty-dumpster, stomp on it, empty the "Doggie Dooley" canister all over it, and call it quits.
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Congratulations Chris - Pop-up ads are the work of the devil.

But if you do choose to subsidise the site by adverts, a few discreet banners wouldn't look too bad.

The adverts on The LED Museum actually look "tasteful" in their way, and add professional gravitas to the site, rather than a cheap and nasty look.

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Chris M.

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But if you do choose to subsidise the site by adverts, a few discreet banners wouldn't look too bad.

The adverts on The LED Museum actually look "tasteful" in their way, and add professional gravitas to the site, rather than a cheap and nasty look.



I agree. They`re actually useful too as each and every one of them is for LED/Flashlight related sites, and not forgetting the fact that they ensure the LED Museum continues to thrive in that way it does so well.

I`m sure in the future I`ll need some help funding my sites, as they grow and I need more space or bandwidth, or should I need some new test equipment- I wouldn`t say no to a torch or bulb company who wanted to advertize on some of my pages in return for some $$$.


I`m just glad those ones for online casinos, dating services and all that other crap, are gone forever!

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popups? popunders?
banner ads?
never see em here.
webwasher filters them out.
one of the few pages i dont filter is the led museum.
 

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by snakebite:
popups? popunders?
banner ads?
never see em here.
webwasher filters them out.
one of the few pages i dont filter is the led museum.
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I don't and won't use any JAVA enabled ads, or those kind that somehow are able to create & open a tiny new browser with no borders within the page being viewed (like those awful doubleclick or adforce banners). Pop-ups, pop-downs, forced "on exit..." windows, self-replicating "PORN WEBCAM" ads, and that foul code that opens new ads faster than you can close them - I hate all that crap and would never sully my website with it.

The best I can do without burdening my already overtaxed system with an adbuster program is to fix the registry so their auto-redirects go to port 127 on my local machine (more accurately, IP address 127.0.0.1), giving a "page not found" error in the ad's window instead of the ad itself. But I still get the windows themselves, which just kill your scrolling speed until they're completely off your screen.

The ads on the front page of my site are nothing more than GIFs with a link attribute, which is probably why they skim past most internet garbage filters unharmed.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by The LED Museum:
I don't and won't use any JAVA enabled ads, or those kind that somehow are able to create & open a tiny new browser with no borders within the page being viewed (like those awful doubleclick or adforce banners). Pop-ups, pop-downs, forced "on exit..." windows, self-replicating "PORN WEBCAM" ads, and that foul code that opens new ads faster than you can close them - I hate all that crap and would never sully my website with it.

The best I can do without burdening my already overtaxed system with an adbuster program is to fix the registry so their auto-redirects go to port 127 on my local machine (more accurately, IP address 127.0.0.1), giving a "page not found" error in the ad's window instead of the ad itself. But I still get the windows themselves, which just kill your scrolling speed until they're completely off your screen.

The ads on the front page of my site are nothing more than GIFs with a link attribute, which is probably why they skim past most internet garbage filters unharmed.
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thats called a host file.works well and doesnt hog resources.
webwasher makes it easy to filter any ad and to add to the database anything that sneaks by.
the reason i set it to not filter on the led museum is that the banners are on topic and from reputable busineses.unobtrusive as well.
if all advertisers would do it like this we wouldent need host files and proxies.
 
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