Stripe Ads

[walrus]

Yes, I know there are plug ins for this but in my never ending battle against useless plug ins I present the other method.

Now you can look cool like all those bloggers that use free hosts and add some highly visible advertising to the top of your blog!!! Be the envy of everyone you know...

Seriously, I was fucking around the other day and decided I wanted to check this out. So I added one to Porn Blog Surfer and kind of liked it. Here's how.

Add this line to your header.php file just underneath the body tag

<div id=“ad-top”>Your Banner or Text Link here</div>

Then add the following to you style sheet.

/* Ad Space CSS Start */
#ad-top {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 17px;
background-color: #FFFFE1;
color: #0000FF;
border-bottom: #000000;
padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
text-align: center;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
font-weight: bold;
}
html > body #ad-top {
position: fixed;
}
#ad-top a:link, #ad-top a:visited {
color: #0000FF;
background-color: transparent;
}
ad-top a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
body {
padding-top: 17px;
}
/* Ad Space CSS Start */

Remember you can change all the color and font shit to match your blog. This matches mine

Then, because IE6 is a bitch you'll need to add this little piece of code. Some themes have a seperate ie style sheet if your does add this to it.

/*---IE is a Bitch---*/
<style type="text/css">
body
{
overflow-y: hidden;
}
div#ad-top
{
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}

If your theme doesn't have a seperate IE style sheet use this underneath the link to your themes style sheet

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
-----This is the WP link to the style sheet add the following underneath it-------
<!--IE is still a bitch-->
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
overflow-y: hidden;
}
div#ad-top
{
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->

[Tekster]

Is that the Fling ad on top of Porn Blog Surfer?
Looks good. I might give it a try.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by TekAngel

Is that the Fling ad on top of Porn Blog Surfer?
Looks good. I might give it a try.

yep its fling.

[hashbury]

Thanks Walrus
Its like you read my mind. I was just getting ready to look for this code for my free blog host.

[Mr. Blue]

Interesting method...have you ever thought of using OpenX to handle the advertising spaces on your blog?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

Interesting method...have you ever thought of using OpenX to handle the advertising spaces on your blog?

Actually, I'd never thought about that. hmmmm

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by walrus

Actually, I'd never thought about that. hmmmm

I've done it once on a network I was setting up for hire. Since the person wanted it automated down the line and didn't really know much about wordpress templates it was easier to set up Openx and incorporate it in the blog.

Granted Openx has the worst documentation ever, lol, but once you learn it (after crying a bit, lol)...it really is nice and easy to set up zones on your blog and it allows you to rotate out sponsors whenever you want. Considering how the adult industry is and how many times I've had to pull links for any number of reasons...it's nice to have something that can control a network of advertising.

Hmm, I hadn't done this on my own blog network, but I think I might have just talked myself into it, lol.

[Simon]

I'm doing that with OpenX 2.6 right now. Headers, sidebars, footers, ads between posts, everything is being done through OpenX from now on.

Upgrade if you haven't done it yet because the new Single Page Call really cuts down on the amount of code you have to use to display an ad. Especially if you don't care about the 'noscript' surfers.