On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 21:33:54 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> Though I agree that if it is flashy or noisy, say no. I was just thinking text link and I'd be ok with an image link too, but any javascript or flash stuff, forget that.

IMO, image is a must. I hate text ads. Personally, I immediately associate it with page rank gaming or similar stuff.

Piotrek

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 22:53:21 UTC, Piotrek wrote:
> IMO, image is a must. I hate text ads.

I was thinking just a link like we have here now: http://digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html

but whatever works

On 05/06/2014 04:07 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 22:53:21 UTC, Piotrek wrote:
>> IMO, image is a must. I hate text ads.
>
> I was thinking just a link like we have here now:
> http://digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html
>
> but whatever works

I think that works. The publisher will get their hits through those links anyway.

I don't think a proper ad is necessary unless it brings lots of money. (I hope it does but I don't think so.)

Ali

On 7/05/2014 4:13 a.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Walter and I got asked by Packt Publishing about advertising Adam D.
> Ruppe's "D Cookbook" on http://dlang.org/ or
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Books. They'd be paying 2-5% of the royalties
> depending on the ads' prominence. I estimate that would be low in
> absolute numbers, and would probably go toward defraying our hosting costs.
>
> I wanted to ask the community how they'd feel about this. The ads would
> only advertise Adam's book and we'd have leeway with format and size.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I'm all for it! And to reiterate image only no flashy noisy thing or evil tracking.
Would be great to have this more as a general offering for any book that dealt with D however after all, we want to promote D as having a sizeable community support right?

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Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples:

- http://jquery.com/ (bottom)
- http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom)
- http://www.yiiframework.com/
- http://primefaces.org/
- https://www.freeswitch.org/

Please chime in!

Andrei

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:57:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples:
>
> - http://jquery.com/ (bottom)
> - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom)
> - http://www.yiiframework.com/
> - http://primefaces.org/
> - https://www.freeswitch.org/
>
> Please chime in!
>
> Andrei

I like the bottom ones ( jquery things ) : they do not disturb
the content of the page, and they are pretty clear.

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:57:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples:
>
> - http://jquery.com/ (bottom)
> - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom)
> - http://www.yiiframework.com/
> - http://primefaces.org/
> - https://www.freeswitch.org/
>
> Please chime in!
>
> Andrei

I'd say the bottom if we go on the dlang, and the others will do if we put it on the wiki.

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:57:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Looks like there's consensus, time to choose the creative. Here are a few examples:
>
> - http://jquery.com/ (bottom)
> - http://jqueryui.com/ (bottom)
> - http://www.yiiframework.com/
> - http://primefaces.org/
> - https://www.freeswitch.org/
>
> Please chime in!
>
> Andrei

Hi,

I would put it under the tweets or even over them. I think the bottom is somehow counter-advertising. In my view, natural position for recommended books (or other products) are on the side panel.

Piotrek

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 18:27:46 UTC, Piotrek wrote:
> I would put it under the tweets or even over them. I think the bottom is somehow counter-advertising. In my view, natural position for recommended books (or other products) are on the side panel.

I'm with you... I think something like freeswitch's display under the tweets.