I work for a prominent technology magazine's web site and a penny-a-page method would barely cover our monthly hosting costs. Likewise, as a consumer, often times when surfing a site I don't know what will apear when I click on a link and find myself using the back button more often than not. If that is the case will I then be charged for pages I didn't even want to see?
Art (programming) trancends so many different aspects of life that it is obvious to me that programming is an art. When you design a game, program, or even a web site, you are inevitably incorporating story structure, design, character, plot, etc... Every object you create is in itself an artistic expression. You, Mr. Programmer, are more an artist than a Computer Technician. A Computer Technician spits out what a manual tells him to do. A programmer does what he feels...aka HE IS AN ARTIST.
The problem with advertising is not what people see or do not see, it is whether or not they can recall that ad an hour, a day, a week later. You may sit through an ad on television out of pure lazyness, but can you recall every ad you saw during your 1/2 hour Buffy program? You may remeber one ad though. That ad was successful. I have been talking all morning with my co-workers about the new "Goldfish" ad which states Goldfish, "are the snack that smiles back, until you bite their heads off" If advertisers can figure out a way to make banner ads more effective then they will succeed.
The problem with advertising is not what people see or do not see, it is whether or not they can recall that ad an hour, a day, a week later. You may sit through an ad on television out of pure lazyness, but can you recall every ad you saw during your 1/2 hour Buffy program? You may remeber one ad though. That ad was successful. I have been talking all morning with my co-workers about the new "Goldfish" ad which states Goldfish, "are the snack that smiles back, until you bite there heads off" If advertisers can figure out a way to make banner ads more effective then they will succeed.
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I work for a prominent technology magazine's web site and a penny-a-page method would barely cover our monthly hosting costs. Likewise, as a consumer, often times when surfing a site I don't know what will apear when I click on a link and find myself using the back button more often than not. If that is the case will I then be charged for pages I didn't even want to see?
Oddly enough I can't access MSN.com with Mozilla. However, I can access MSN.com's media kit.
Art (programming) trancends so many different aspects of life that it is obvious to me that programming is an art. When you design a game, program, or even a web site, you are inevitably incorporating story structure, design, character, plot, etc... Every object you create is in itself an artistic expression. You, Mr. Programmer, are more an artist than a Computer Technician. A Computer Technician spits out what a manual tells him to do. A programmer does what he feels...aka HE IS AN ARTIST.
That is the saddest thing I ever heard...if your box can geta box and you can't...you need to get out from behind your box...I could go on....
Technology Review did an article last month on the same subject.
The problem with advertising is not what people see or do not see, it is whether or not they can recall that ad an hour, a day, a week later. You may sit through an ad on television out of pure lazyness, but can you recall every ad you saw during your 1/2 hour Buffy program? You may remeber one ad though. That ad was successful. I have been talking all morning with my co-workers about the new "Goldfish" ad which states Goldfish, "are the snack that smiles back, until you bite their heads off" If advertisers can figure out a way to make banner ads more effective then they will succeed.
Cox Johnson
P.S. I can't spel
The problem with advertising is not what people see or do not see, it is whether or not they can recall that ad an hour, a day, a week later. You may sit through an ad on television out of pure lazyness, but can you recall every ad you saw during your 1/2 hour Buffy program? You may remeber one ad though. That ad was successful. I have been talking all morning with my co-workers about the new "Goldfish" ad which states Goldfish, "are the snack that smiles back, until you bite there heads off" If advertisers can figure out a way to make banner ads more effective then they will succeed.
Cox Johnson
P.S. I can't spel