banner ads problem

ricadus · July 2007

Anyone else having this occasional problem? (screenshot below)

It seems the vertical banner overhangs messages in some (but not all) threads. Resizing or refreshing the browser window doesn't seem to solve it. It only occurs within message threads; at forum and topic levels things are fine.

nicklouse · July 2007

know about http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12538772

ricadus · July 2007

D'oh!!!!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y24/ricadus/BikeRadar2.jpg

nicklouse · July 2007

and they say there could be a forum update today!

we will see.

davydesign · July 2007

looks like the hanging banners didnt get fixed in the latest update

Big Red S · July 2007

Seems to only affect gecko-based browsers (Mozilla, Epiphany, Firefox).

Opera's certainly free of it, and it's been alleged that various versions of IE render the page correctly, too. Konqueror seems to be OK, too, so I imagine Safari's quite happy.

nicklouse · July 2007

it still has problems in IE take this topic for example the side advert covers the screen shot as in the screen shot.

Big Red S · July 2007

Ah, yeah. Epiphany and IceWeasel/Firefox do that, too. Opera shunts it down to the bottom of the page, which I'm happy with.

My guess is it's rooted in the page being of defined absolute width, and the huge image at the top (screenshot) is taking up more of that than it perhaps should, so there's nowhere for the advert.

Huwie · August 2007

I've noticed generally awful rendering with Firefox. Some webpage elements tend to overlap, like controls/links at the top of the page.

h i r 0 · August 2007

Really, if you're using Firefox there's no reason Bikeradar shouldn't look like this

with AdBlock Plus (free)

davydesign · August 2007

or you could set up a user style to hide the banner section. I'll post a how to when i get back from hols...

John Stevenson · August 2007

If you're using Firefox, dealing with over-wide pages that spread under the ads is easy:

1) Install Stylish from here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

b) Get the phpBB no-stretch style from here:

http://userstyles.org/styles/1340

iii) Be happy.

Huwie · August 2007

Thanks John.

vermooten · August 2007

Seems the have-a-go amateurs who run this forum haven't heard that pages viewed in Firefox and IE can behave differently. Suggesting that people install software to make their lives easier would be laughable anywhere else except here.

Why not employ web developers who know what they're doing? I know this is a bizarre concept, but if the system were coded better then problems like this might not occur.

Here's an even better idea: go back to college and complete your courses.

piedwagtail91 · August 2007

this is happening on the imperial centuy a month thread using i.e.. why not get rid of the offending ad until the site works?

banner ads problem

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