AdSense
Posted July 9th, 2003 @ 01:21pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Consider the placement of Google AdSense ads on Cocoa Dev Central a test balloon. The ads won't appear on this site any time in the near future - and probably never if Google continue to offer only two inflexible styles - but I'm hopeful that enough people will click on the ads at Cocoa Dev Central that I can get the site to pay for its share of the hosting. 
And yes, Gruber's article prompted this. If you guys want to contribute to me, well, I've already got an established means of doing that! Granted, that's also a multi-person company, but I'm simply saying it's already set up to handle payments, and you get some pretty great software as a thank you gift.
Donate Life
Posted 09 Jul 2003 at 3:35pm #
I saw Gruber's article, and I thought the same thing myself.
You don't any money if you don't get any clicks... so nobody would make a style that you couldn't see. I don't see why Google doesn't either give all of it's elements undefined CSS styles (that you can then define) or offer a basic color chart type of thing on their page. If you can merge the ad into your page better, more people will use them. Just my 2 cents.