Thread: AdSense integration together with nice welcome message

Originally Posted by StarBuG ((login for URL))

When you make the welcome box fluid the distance between the ad and the welcome text varies which defeats the purpose of the initial idea behind the welcome box ad.
The welcome box performs best when the ad is directly next to the welcome text which was
created in the first place to optimize blending and prevent the "in your face" character of Ads
placed alone in this position.

yes this is exactly the problem, this distance is soo big and that dosent help in blending,
if i can fix the adsense width i will add more texte to fill the gap, its possible to get a full wide rectangle ?

Originally Posted by Kolbi ((login for URL))

Sorry I don't understand all clearly. But I try to answer.

TMS is working with CSS Templates as, well. You can for example implement nearly all changes into TMS.

How do you use the TMS to add code to the additional.css? The file itself is blank so there's no code to add after, before or replace?

Blank files can't be handled by TMS because the TMS is "search and replace" based.
The additional.css however is a template that wont be overwritten with any upgrade so you
are safe to add to it whatever you want

Ah thanks for that, this is kind of my problem at the moment, I have a theme that I bought that uses the additional css to style, so after every upgrade of VB if the theme needs an upgrade I have to upload the new version. This seems to overwrite any changes I've made to the theme (as you'd expect) and any thing I've added to the additional.css (ie. this adsense styling) so I have to make the changes everytime, I was hoping the TMS might be a way around this.

I'm guessing as long as my theme css ends in the same thing everytime I could still add the adsense code to the end of the additional.css everytime even if it's rewritten everytime

Why not create a separate css template for your theme or ask the theme creator to do this.
This way with each theme upgrade you would only overwrite css necessary for your theme.
Would be much more elegant this way.

That's a good idea, thanks again

Do you prefer image or text ads? Or a combined thing?

If you display both image and text the competition is higher and this will increase your revenue over time.

Do you always use image and text ads? Or do you only recommenend it for the welcome header?

on all ad units