Intrusive animated ads online   

I don't know if anyone who can influence change at the magazine reads this, 
but I sure  hope so.

I often work on the road or from home and, when I do, it is often over a 
relatively slow network.  It can be either dial-up, depending on a hotel or 
weather conditions or it can be my satellite Internet service - which isn't a 
great way to do RDP anyway.

When I am on a slow network, the flashing animated advertisements on the 
pages for MSDN magazine articles mean that opening those pages renders my RDP 
session virtually useless and unusable.  And I never realize it until after 
choosing one of the wonderful MSDN articles from my search results. 

Even at work, the flashing is a serious distraction and make the articles 
hard to read.

Please!  Eliminate the flashing and animations.  The troublesome ads today 
are for MSDN Magazine 2005 CD, VS2005 Launch DVD, and Dev Week 2007.  These 
could be effectively marketed with a simple colorful banner ad against the 
blue/gray MSDN page.

It's not like these advertisements are going to win  me an X-Box by clicking 
the bouncing MSDN CD or make me a better lover.  If they must change, 
couldn't they change 2 or 3 times and then stop?

And on top of that, the MSDN home page even has an animated ad for 
Expression Web.  While the animation is the worst problem with the ad, it 
seems rather pointless to advertise the product to developers since it has 
been determined on high that developers have no need for, or interest in, 
Expression Suite products.

Dale
-- 
Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA

date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:39:01 -0800   author:   Dale am

RE: Intrusive animated ads online   

I received a reply by email from the managing editor of MSDN magazine 
suggesting I turn off the Show Animations option in the advanced settings of 
IE.

Worked like a charm for animated gifs.  Flash is still a potential problem 
but all of the flash ads I have seen since making the settings change have 
stopped animating after a few seconds.  That I can live with.

Thanks, MSDN Magazine.

Dale

-- 
Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Dale" wrote:

> I don't know if anyone who can influence change at the magazine reads this, 
> but I sure  hope so.
> 
> I often work on the road or from home and, when I do, it is often over a 
> relatively slow network.  It can be either dial-up, depending on a hotel or 
> weather conditions or it can be my satellite Internet service - which isn't a 
> great way to do RDP anyway.
> 
> When I am on a slow network, the flashing animated advertisements on the 
> pages for MSDN magazine articles mean that opening those pages renders my RDP 
> session virtually useless and unusable.  And I never realize it until after 
> choosing one of the wonderful MSDN articles from my search results. 
> 
> Even at work, the flashing is a serious distraction and make the articles 
> hard to read.
> 
> Please!  Eliminate the flashing and animations.  The troublesome ads today 
> are for MSDN Magazine 2005 CD, VS2005 Launch DVD, and Dev Week 2007.  These 
> could be effectively marketed with a simple colorful banner ad against the 
> blue/gray MSDN page.
> 
> It's not like these advertisements are going to win  me an X-Box by clicking 
> the bouncing MSDN CD or make me a better lover.  If they must change, 
> couldn't they change 2 or 3 times and then stop?
> 
> And on top of that, the MSDN home page even has an animated ad for 
> Expression Web.  While the animation is the worst problem with the ad, it 
> seems rather pointless to advertise the product to developers since it has 
> been determined on high that developers have no need for, or interest in, 
> Expression Suite products.
> 
> Dale
> -- 
> Dale Preston
> MCAD C#
> MCSE, MCDBA

date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:07:01 -0800   author:   Dale am