{"id":160,"date":"2006-03-02T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-05-28T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T22:41:21","slug":"call-for-vote-prices-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/blogging\/2006\/03\/02\/call-for-vote-prices-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Vote: Prices or No?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with adding more Amazon affiliate links to this site (and eventually others) since so far that seems to be the only thing that makes any real money. (Google ads don&#8217;t even qualify as pocket money, and Yahoo&#8217;s even worse.)<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of ways I can structure these ads. One option is to use plain pictures like these:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000BNLC3K\/cafeaulaitA\/ref=nosim\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000BNLC3K.01._PC_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000EPWDTC\/cafeaulaitA\/ref=nosim\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000EPWDTC.01._PC_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000EPWDTM\/cafeaulaitA\/ref=nosim\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000EPWDTM.01._PC_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0009U7Y32\/cafeaulaitA\/ref=nosim\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0009U7Y32.01._PC_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alternately I can use slightly glossier ads that include prices like these:<\/p>\n<div>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=cafeaulait&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000BNLC3K&amp;nou=1&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"15\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=cafeaulait&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000EPWDTC&amp;nou=1&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"15\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=cafeaulait&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000EPWDTM&amp;nou=1&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"15\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=cafeaulait&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0009U7Y32&amp;nou=1&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"15\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I also have the option to make various adjustments to the ads, e.g. including both new and used prices or no prices at all. On the one hand, I like being obvious that these are ads and stating the price right up front. On the other hand, with prices the ads are much larger. Worse yet, the text often doesn&#8217;t fit in the ad box making everything look really ugly and obscuring the prices anyway:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/images\/miniprices.png.png' alt='Mac Mini ads with obscured prices' width='506' height='251'\/><\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a function of Amazon wanting to use smaller fonts than my preferences allow. The ads work better in some other browsers. In general, markup that assumes a fixed size is a really bad idea.  <\/p>\n<p>These ads are all served by Amazon which limits what I can do. I could be more creative if I completely controlled the ad HTML. That could be done with Amazon web services. However that would take quite a bit longer to implement. <\/p>\n<p>Any preferences? Alternate suggestions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with adding more Amazon affiliate links to this site (and eventually others) since so far that seems to be the only thing that makes any real money. (Google ads don&#8217;t even qualify as pocket money, and Yahoo&#8217;s even worse.) There are a number of ways I can structure these ads. 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