Summary: | guide.xsl Updates (ads/store) | ||
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Product: | Websites | Reporter: | Lance Albertson (RETIRED) <ramereth> |
Component: | Other | Assignee: | Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | dberkholz, docs-team, markm |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Other | ||
URL: | http://www.gentoo.ramereth.net:8001/ | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
guide.xsl.patch
guide.xsl.patch vr-ad.png |
Description
Lance Albertson (RETIRED)
2005-05-22 11:23:19 UTC
Created attachment 59571 [details, diff]
guide.xsl.patch
Patch for guide.xsl changes.
Created attachment 59572 [details, diff] guide.xsl.patch Just had a comment from Mark (mm@vr.org) about taking out the text links. For him its very important to have at least a text link instead of relying on the image as a referrer on search engines. So I updated the patch and my page to reflex that. I don't see much of a problem with at least having those links in there like that. As a Sponsor the primary benefit we get from being listed on g.o isn't from the graphic ad, but from the text link providing added search engine wieght. The end result isn't anything under-handed (like what happened w/ wordpress a few months back) but a fair residual exchange for the tens of thousands per year we spend in bandwidth and hardware supporting the project. A longer term suggestion to reduce clutter and improve the look of g.o would be to remove the graphics all together, and replace them with a small (1inch tall or so) text box labaled "Sponsors" and only have the text links on the site w/ exception of the primary sponsors page. The idea of text-ads (single-direction link exchange :) does sound like a nice future direction, yet I'm not in favor of rushing things so let's first take a look at this guide.xsl patch :) Looks good. Also glad to see that there's no linking to a page that doesn't exist (or exists but sais that "the action is over" or "under construction") as was the case a few ago. Created attachment 59585 [details]
vr-ad.png
Forgot to include the new image on the bug. Here ya go!
The store link needs to be changed to http://www.cafepress.com/officialgentoo. The box ad for the store can be removed as well Yeah, thats included in my patch. Swift: Can you please make this change anytime now? Daniel will be stopping taking orders tonight so it would be nice to get that changed soon! Committed. Chapter closed :) You forgot to update the png image for vr.org ;-). see attached vr-ad.png for the new image. No I didn't, but you'll need to refresh to get the old image out of the cache. See http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/images/vr-ad.png?root=gentoo&rev=1.2&sortby=date&view=log Ok, so I lie! Sorry for being an idiot :P I'll make a separate bug for the other two image updates. Thanks again :) |