Solo Technology

As warned, the first cut of the new theme is up and running. It ain’t perfect, but I think I’m headed in the right direction.

Yes, I know the comments aren’t styled yet

7 Responses to “Der Theme”

1. Rich G. on January 14th, 2008 7:16 pm
   

   I like the fluid part of your site. I think your ads, if you’r egoing to monetize, are too unobtrusive. Your feed readers won’t see them… you get a lot of search engine traffic, those ppl need to see your ads. Only ppl who are going to see them now are commentors. The amazon boxes that fit inline side by side with the text wrapping around are good.

2. Chris Kasten on January 14th, 2008 7:35 pm
   

   Good point Rich. Having all the google ads below the fold will definitely cut back those clicks.

   Then again, they don’t get clicked all that often. I might experiment a bit though.

3. Rich G. on January 14th, 2008 8:48 pm
   

   erm… in sales if you take a seller that’s not selling to well and put it in a closet behind the furnace in the hall that’s locked except for during the overnight cleaning crew hours… sales continue to do badly.

   Get at least 1 above the fold, run it horizontally across the top of the article, or in a window inside the article if the article’s long enough… I think a well monetized article would be one that was popular that you inserted the ad in yourself rather than just counting on the footer.

   It might not even be monetized the same from article inception to a week, month, year later as articles rise in popularity you might want to look for trends and monetize them. Your firefox tweak page should certainly have an ad in it. If nothing else for an amazon.com or other affiliate link to memory or some other upgradish type stuff. PPL looking at that sort of thing are the type that are getting under the hood… they might be willing to try upgrading their own memory etc.

4. Rich G. on January 14th, 2008 8:51 pm
   

   PS: What’ve you done to the permalink pages? The two inches of white space between header and start of article seems a bit much.

   Rich “Picking on you because I’m gonna hire mine done” G.

5. Rich G. on January 14th, 2008 8:52 pm
   

   OH - NOW the google ad shows up in the white space. *sigh* nevermind.

6. Rich G. on January 14th, 2008 8:53 pm
   

   and now it’s gone again… I wish comments were able to be edited. It seems if there is no google adblock then the space is just left empty.

7. Chris Kasten on January 14th, 2008 9:19 pm
   

   Well, hopefully they’re all filling in now (just on the permalink pages). Since the ads are served as an iframe, it gets silly if there’s no actual ad (yet).

   Right now it’s on ALL articles. I might toy with a custom tag to exclude/include for just certain articles. Maybe.

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