June 14, 2004

BlogAds, not exactly easy to use

I've been using BlogAds for a while but I should say that even though it's a great idea, it has a poor implementation.

I can't write a review on it right now, but what frustrates me most is the fact that I can't edit the ads people have submitted to me. For example, I can't accept some of the banners people submit either because they are bigger or smaller than my standard size, or they are simply ugly.

So if i want to change the banner with a new one, designed by me, I have no choice but to send the banner back to the owner and ask him or her to replace it with the older one. The same thing would happen if I want to change their wording a little bit.

Moreover, eventhough it works fine with Unicode, but since the default page encoding (maybe on the web server) is set to something other than Unicode, every time you want to change or see something in Persian, for example, you have to change the page encoding to Unicode -- it's such a pain.

Posted by hoder at June 14, 2004 6:44 PM

Comments
Hi Hoder -- thank you for the feedback. Vis unicode, we definitely need to work on this. Vis bloggers changing advertising: we've done our best to make the general format customizable (font size/colors/justification) by blogger but the feedback we've gotten from advertisers is that, having paid for something, they do NOT want bloggers editing their text or image. (Imagine how complicated this would be to monitor for an advertiser who has ordered on 50 blogs.) Hence the current structure: imperfect but delivering business to both parties. Henry
- By: henrycopeland on June 22, 2004
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Have you ever thought of using Paypal?
- By: Melanie McBride on June 16, 2004
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