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Ads skewing page contents to the right

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I hate to ad to another "whine about the ads" type thread...however, I think this is somewhat of a problem. I had to bump up my screen resolution to the point the text is so small it hurts my eyes to read the print on this website in order to avoid the problem I am dealing with now.

[url="http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/default.htm?id=banner%20%20"]This advert[/url] when it pops up in the "Advertisement" side panel to the left of the forums section of the site stretches the advertisement section far to the right. I haven't noticed this being a problem previously, as they all stayed within the small rectangular space allotted for them. This one however, and it has so far been only this one, stretches a good amount of the time far to the right, skewing the forum display completely when it does so.

I don't know if anyone else has had this problem, but I went through and reloaded the site various times, and that was the only ad I noticed to do so. The other prevalent one which I saw was an AT&T Yahoo high speed internet ad which stayed within that little area no problem. Is there a way to fix that so it doesn't scrunch the whole site's contents into a corner of the page? :confused:
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Post by BuckGB »

Can you take a screenshot of what you're seeing? The ad is only supposed to be 120x600 pixels in size, so I'm trying to decide if this is a rollover function causing this problem, if the ad is the wrong size for the zone it's being displayed in, or if the ad is simply broken somehow. A screenshot would help determine where the problem lies.
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Post by Magrus »

I took 3 screenshots real quick for you:

First one is where it doesn't stretch over:
[url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Magrusaod/AdskewGB-normal.gif"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Magrusaod/AdskewGB-normal.gif[/url]

Second one is where it does viewing the page:
[url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Magrusaod/AdskewGB.gif"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Magrusaod/AdskewGB.gif[/url]

Third is where it does when replying to this thread:
[url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Magrusaod/AdskewGB-2.gif"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Magrusaod/AdskewGB-2.gif[/url]

It doesn't spread out really far in those last two pics like it was previously. Before, the ad was taking roughly half of the screen, and it pushed everything over drastically.
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Post by BuckGB »

Thanks for the screens. It looks like a 300x250 ad has mistakingly been added to the 120x600 rotation. I'll forward this along to our ad provider.
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Post by Magrus »

Great. I just got hit with the monstrously sized ones again, so that'd be super to fix. :laugh: This one has to be close to the smallest sized resolution I can fit my screen to in the display options. :rolleyes:
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Post by Magrus »

"You can do whatever you want to me."
"Oh, so I can crate you and hide you in the warehouse at the end of Raiders?"
"So funny, kiss me funny boy!" / *Sprays mace* " I know, I know, bad for the ozone"
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