Two months later: Project Wonderful.

5 March, 2007 in Normal by Justin | 2 comments

So, I’ve run Project Wonderful’s ad boxes for a couple of months now.

I went to look at my balance, and I see that I’ve earned fifty cents.
I’m not displeased whatsoever by this, simply because I have been host to some ads for products I would buy (if I had money), and to a couple of web comics that I’ve just about completely read from end to end (Spiky-Haired Dragon, Worthless Knight, and The Book of Biff, to be specific, and offer a free plug, at that).

What I am displeased by is the colossal lack of respect for web standards these ad blocks present on my ‘blog, and are almost singlehandedly responsible for my inability to validate my ‘blog with the [tag]W3C[/tag] Validator.

I think that in a week’s time, I’ll have to sadly part with the [tag]Project Wonderful[/tag] ad blocks on my blog, simply because it’s spring cleaning time, and I’m cleaning up the code house, so to speak.

There are other things that irk me, and they’ll be prodded upon, as well.

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11 March, 2007 at 21:21

ak-ryuu

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The lack of respect for web standards is exactly one of the reasons why I don’t want PW ads on my main page (I have them in the archive, but it annoys me all the time that I can’t validate my site, which is otherwise XHTML Strict). I should possibly write to PW and complain to them about this — maybe they are able to fix it, after all. I’m just not really good at writing such mails …

The best thing about PW for me (besides being able to advertise my web site for little money) is finding sites that I otherwise wouldn’t have found — I, too, have started reading some webcomics and blogs that I found only because they advertised on my site :)

12 March, 2007 at 05:27

Xial Lunashine

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>>1

Well, I actually did email them about it.

According to them, they are at least XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant, but I let them know that unless I lower my doctype to match (which I did, because there’s just too much crap out there that isn’t strict, and I’d be up to my elbows in email, trying to get everyone else to actually catch up to Strict.

They asked me to try the revised code (which they seem to have rolled out in the two months since I joined), and though it is a little better (and validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional), I wish it were XHTML 1.0 Strict. ;)

I’ll probably add another ad box back, so I can at least have two slots here, but it’s not so bad now. :)