I noticed when I was reading an article on the abc site, they had a small ad with a guy come to the screen with a toyota t-shirt on. Pretty neat. I would assume it was done in flash. Would this be possible to do in our vbulletin sites? I would say that people don't need to have it pop up twice. I guess there would be provisions like, once a week or so. People hate pop up ads.

Could it be done? Where would I look to have it done?

I hate those, even if it's a one-time thing honestly. Anything that pops up and blocks my content full like that is a turn-off for websites. I never usually go back to that site again.

Pop-ups I can deal with... but the flash ones where they cover the center of your screen on that same page... ugh. I find them more annoying than two or three pop-ups that go behind the window.

As for it being done, anything's possible with vBulletin for the most part. It just depends where you put the code.

It was actually small and in the bottom left hand corner. It was very discreet. I liked it. I sell advertising at my site and if that would besomething attractive to sell, I would be all ears.

Dana
Lawn Cafe.com

It depends on the content I guess... I just never liked them in general. :p

Well, if you get the code, chances are it would be as simple as placing them into the header or footer.

Most of those ads are done by JavaScript; can't tell you off-hand any more information on that since I don't use stuff like that myself, but it should lead you in the right direction. Hopefully someone else here might be able to give a response. :)

I'm not sure what you mean, have a link to the page? ;)

The ads I hate the most are those that overlap the page until you click the little (and it is little) 'x' to close it.

Popups aren't too much of an issue anymore. Popup blockers being the norm in most browsers (and security suites on windows) take care of most popups, and I think content publishers are starting to remove them since they aren't as effective anymore.