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Dsarchy
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 14:38
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OK I have had a few problems with the site.

1st) It doesn't resize its self properly. The banner resizes its self and fits inside my screen but the actualy page still remains too large. Im running on 1024 * 768, ok not the best but good enough.

2nd) The increasing amount of ads on the site. Ok im personaly fine with things like ads to other products like lightwave and all that thats ok its interesting but i'm seeing an increasing amount of ones that have no link to TGC

example:
Quote: "American Diabetes Assoc.
Your trusten source for diabetes research,
resources and information"


I can see it now, in a couple of months time there are going to be pop ups and everything, plz say thats not the case

well anyway its a sunny day today im going to try and enjoy it.

ViVi

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Dave J
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 14:55
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lol it's a Google-powered Ad bar, TGC don't choose what ads go up - google do. I doubt there will be many more ads (if any) and to be honest, I hardly even notice the little google bar down the bottom so I have no idea why everyone else does.


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 14:56
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The ads come from Google AdWords or ourselves, nowhere else. The one you mentioned are their "filler" ads, i.e. if there are no paying ads to display we get those to display instead which are all charity related and basically for good causes. They appear in the horizontal strip at the bottom of the page, that's it. That's where they'll always appear. Google Ads never "pop up/under" or anywhere for that matter.

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John H
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 15:25
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Actually, the same thing for me about the Banner. The banner at the top of the site that says "The Game Creators" in cool blue text goes off to the right too far.

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Mattman
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 15:36
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which one, this one?



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Critters
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 15:51
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got it in one Mattman

I dont have any problem with things resizeing improperly, it only seems to do that when im on 800x600, which i am hardly ever on. Im just sad enough to test it

There are ads on TGC?

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Dsarchy
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 16:21
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Well if its for charity then I have nothing against it.

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Arrow
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 17:01
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I got zero problems with this site runnig 1024x768


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Preston C
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 17:04
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same here, might be the browser your using


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Dsarchy
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 17:15
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erm I only get it on certain pages.

http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com
http://geoscape.thegamecreators.com/
http://darkmatter.thegamecreators.com/

are a few examples.

Im using IE 6.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 17:20
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it happens on all of the pages, IF you resize under 600px wide
reason being is the site's tables smallest size is 600px but dynamically resizes.

As most people here are using Windows XP and this site really is best seen in fullscreen, never thought of it as a problem.
and somehow i see Rich doesn't either.


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Chris K
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Posted: 14th Dec 2003 22:54
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I'm sure it's meant to cut off the blue title.

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