We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn’t actually being offered. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers.
Publishers should also be careful to avoid similar implementations that people could find misleading. For instance, if your site contains a directory of Flash games, you should not format the ads to mimic the game descriptions.
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WordPress users can get started tracking by using the Reinvigorate WordPress Plugin.
Drupal users may use the following plugin authored by Tobi Maier.
Reinvigorate draws graphs using an image generator instead of Flash, so it’s much faster than Analytics.
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Back in 2001, Eric asked for a brainstorm of a few “splashy” ideas in search. A designer and product manager at the time, I made a few mockups — one of which was for ‘universal search.’ It was a sample search results page for Britney Spears that, in addition to web results, also had news, images, and groups results right on the same page. Even then, we could see that people could easily become overwhelmed with the number of different search tools available on Google — let alone those that would be created over the next few years. This proliferation of tools, while useful, has outgrown the old model of search. We want to help you find the very best answer, even if you don’t know where to look.
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Inspiration, information, advice and entertainment; what more do you want? The following blogs offer all these elements in different measures and combinations, but they do have one thing in common: whether design is your bread and butter or for your eyes only, they are must-reads.
Winner’s Golden Cup
In no particular order, we give you this somewhat subjective shortlist:
Veerle’s Blog
Veerle’s blog is a cheerful and extremely insightful mix of design advice and views, tutorials and interviews. The focus is on CSS and web standards but the content is varied, and Veerle has a way of writing engagingly about anything.
Quite possibly Belgium’s tastiest export ever – after Leffe Dark. veerle.duoh.com
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I am extremely pleased to announce the beta release WP OpenAds today. WP OpenAds is a Wordpress Plugin that allows website owners to easily integrate advertising into their posts and pages. Although WP OpenAds can be used with any advertising script, it was written with the idea of using OpenAds, formerly PHPAdsNew, as the main utility. OpenAds is a very powerful, focused advertising management system. If you are serious about delivering targeted advertising, you should not pass this open-source program up.
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