I really don't think it's about the software. I've seen some really great Flash banner ads that looked incredible.

I think it's about whether it jumps up and down and moves so much you get motion sickness. Animated gifs can get me sea-sick, too.

Needs to take some Dramamine now,
Lillian

"Renderosity opted out of the pop-ups, pop-unders, and all other type of in-your-face advertising from Tribal Fusion. These were never activated on our site." That's interesting. I just checked my cookies and Tribal Fusion cookie has only an anonymous ID now. I'm _quite_ certain that it had an item that said something like "Pop-up: 1" when I answered Rebekah. But, as I said, I block all unwanted pop-ups and if there was something, I didn't see it. And there's absolutely no banner here above this thread now! Nor in Bryce forum. Cinema forum has it, but I had to wait about 30 seconds for the page to load.

If the site is under heavy load the banner ads dont rotate to help free up system resources for faster surfing. FYI, Clint

In the exciting step-by-step account of the ongoing situation, we bring you a new development! :-) The banners are all back. But I got one Flash banner, for something called Still Life. The cursor indicates it's a link, but clicking on it results in absolutely nothing. Somebody messed up and forgot to add an actual link.

Ah. Didn't even see the crosspost. And a heavy load would certianly explain what I experience for the last couple of days: when I click on the bookmark, I have to wait up to a minute for Renderosity to start loading.

Hi Erlik, You are correct. We have been experiencing some very heavy system loads recently. This is a good thing however the site slowness that the loads create is a bad thing. :) We have some new hardware that will be installed in the very near future to help with the increased loads. FYI, Clint

After investigation we have decided to reactivate the Tribal Fusion ads. We confirmed that these are indeed anonymous ID cookies and are not harmful and are not "spyware". There is no reason that we should withhold their ads any further now that this has been cleared up. Just wanted to follow up and let you all know. Thanks, Lillian

" Hmmm...sounds like maybe the Poser forum header needs too loose a few pixels for it's new year's resolution ;-) Thanks for letting me know the logic behind your decision Khai. Very good to know. All the best, Lillian" sorry for the lateness getting back on this. loose a few pixels? I hope that was just being cute, because it's a problem not a joke. it needs to loose about 1000 pixels. it is bloated and badly designed / thought out. the point of the forums is to be forums. that gets rather lost if you can't see them for the bloat, true? ad's ok. there is no way we can talk you of those. but massive tables? another banner? 8 to 10 lines of text? all taking up a 1280x1024 screen on their own. pretty? well no. efficent? not a hope. I really hope that the team here listens and takes a look at this.

> all taking up a 1280x1024 screen on their own. Umm, don't want to be confrontational, but _what_ do you see? My screen is 1600x1200. Opera window takes 1046x1171, and you see on the pic the area Poser forum banner and header take. Are you certain you run 1280? If you used a smaller resolution, that would account for the banner taking up more screen estate. Or you possibly use Large/Extra Large fonts?

ermm well it says 1280x1024 on Monitors 1 & 2. so yes. I am at 1280x1024. well actually 2560x1024.
running on Firefox.

no use of large fonts, just the renderosity standard size.

and yup it does take 1280 on each monitor if I enable banners and the same in Internet Explorer.....

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Weird. Could you post a screenshot of Explorer?

if it was still on the system yup but after getting my copy of XpLite... it's gone. and I'm not reinstalling it... (it's been gone about a week and it's soooooo nice without it)

Ah, now that I thought about it, I'd bet that Eplorer's Resize picture bu^H^Hfeature was on. And I'd like to lay my hands on the person who decreed it has to be on by default.

Well, I've got TribalFusion cookies totally blocked with my FireFox. That frees up a little space on my HD as well. :)

Hi Khai, I was being cute, but at the same time I did take your concern seriously. The concern will be passed along to the Poser Mods and Coords and we'll let the Poser Community decide what works best overall in there. Thanks, Lillian

Khai, I have redesigned the Poser forum header a little bit to try and reclaim some screen real estate. Please tell me how it is for you now?

ok here is the new banner setup, IE, 1280x1024. (taken from my Wifes machine)

it's better... but still a massive waste of space... now here's my view on Firefox... much leaner. but still a massive waste of space there...

Well I am glad it is a little better for you. I really think that's about as small as we can get it without losing readability.

well.. you can put the Moderator / co-ordintors on 1 line, (split them left and right) put Chat and Faq on 1 line. that saves you 3 lines right off. loose the lines about showcase and copyright. they get ignored anyway and the mod's co-ord's do a good job of moving the posts. that gives you another 5 lines. thats 8 lines already. and no loss of readability.

We did look into moving the FAQ, chat etc lines about, however that is part of the whole site software and not something we can customise per forum. I do not think everyone ignores the Special Notices... otherwise we would have a lot more of those posts than we do now. Certainly used to, anyway ;-)

aaah more limitations of Bondware.. right.. (I can see why it's not widely used...) then thats the best we're gonna get then... and it's still a hideous design.. great look for an art site..not. thanks for what you could do Karen.