Banner ads at the top.

[mechsympathy]

It looks like they're hosted elsewhere, and they're sodding slow. This wouldn't be a problem as I ignore them anyway However until they load the menu bar (My Info| This Forum etc) doesn't work

In the time I have taken to type and correct this.

And twiddle my thumbs a bit.....

It still hasn't loaded!

[Furyous]

Ads ?

Theres ads on ph now ?

Never used to be in Daves time....

[Scraggles]

what banner ads ? guess u must be using IE ?

[Mr Will]

mechsympathy said:

It looks like they're hosted elsewhere, and they're sodding slow. This wouldn't be a problem as I ignore them anyway However until they load the menu bar (My Info| This Forum etc) doesn't work

In the time I have taken to type and correct this.

And twiddle my thumbs a bit.....

It still hasn't loaded!

Any idea which particular adverts are doing it? let me know and I will bring it up with the ad guys

[Kinky]

Furyous said:

Ads ?

Theres ads on ph now ?

Never used to be in Daves time....

Yes there was

[Furyous]

Kinky said:

Furyous said:

Ads ?

Theres ads on ph now ?

Never used to be in Daves time....

Yes there was

I know, I was being ironic.They used to be relevant, now there are just noise, and that is why I now use adblock.

[bam50]

Furyous said:

...that is why I now use adblock.

+1. PH runs a treat now on the old 'elastic-band-powered' laptop. It was always crashing when using Internet Explorer 6, changed to Firefox and it was still the same, and the status bar always displayed it was getting some ad or another. Since installing Adblocker and blocking the ads it hasn't crashed once. I've now installed it on the desktop as well, although I never had a problem with PH on there anyway. Well recommended.

ETA. edit text

Edited by bam50 on Sunday 6th April 10:31

[mechsympathy]

Mr Will said:

Any idea which particular adverts are doing it? let me know and I will bring it up with the ad guys

As I said I ignore them I'll see when it happens next, assumiing I don't get over my luddite ways and work out how to use this adblocker thingy

[Scraggles]

probably those droll guys over at haymarket, firefox with adblock seems to nerf them, pity they were so slow, would like to click on a few of them to support the site, but having the site at dialup or broadband speeds difficult choice

[chris.mapey]

Mr Will said:

Any idea which particular adverts are doing it? let me know and I will bring it up with the ad guys

I have the same problem. It seems to be all of them. They are delaying the loading of each page by up to 3 seconds for me.

Chris

[Polarbert]

Would be nice if the ads were at least vaguely related to motoring.

fking boollocks.

[Silent1]

The Ferrari forum is worse, banner ad - topic title - banner ad - text

That gets tedious on a 1024x768 display and on a PDA it's not worth even attemping to browse that forum

[PetrolTed]

I'm guessing that the car related ones are being targeted at the single marque forums in particular (a quick browse of the Porsche forum gives me Porsche related ads for example). The general forums are probably being populated with 'network' ads. I have suggested that a sprinkling of car ads would be sensible, but I don't have much influence over that any more

Good point about the Ferrari forum. The leaderboard ad (the big one) was a one off for Verdi Ferrari originally and now it seems to be Specsavers or similar such nonsense I'll see if I can get it removed next time I'm in the office.

[cuneus]

Having used IE on a laptop I have seen these - the animation / flashing nearly brought on my epilepsy - wonder If I could sue Haymarket

[^Slider^]

For me it seems to be Adjug that is causing the problem, it keeps trying to load from the site but is hanging.

This is also killing the drop down menus at the top and is on every page i try to view.

[mechsympathy]

It hasn't been bad over the weekend but at the moment it keeps hanging up and showing the page as http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adi/ and then presumably a reference which has been N3995, N3434 or N1137 followed by various other bits that presumably refer to size etc.

[RacingPete]

I am just about to launch a different way of loading adverts for the homepage, so when I put that live it would be good to see if that has improved things for the homepage, and then I can implement it in the forums.

[Silent1]

PetrolTed said:

I'm guessing that the car related ones are being targeted at the single marque forums in particular (a quick browse of the Porsche forum gives me Porsche related ads for example). The general forums are probably being populated with 'network' ads. I have suggested that a sprinkling of car ads would be sensible, but I don't have much influence over that any more

Good point about the Ferrari forum. The leaderboard ad (the big one) was a one off for Verdi Ferrari originally and now it seems to be Specsavers or similar such nonsense I'll see if I can get it removed next time I'm in the office.

Thanks dude