If you look at the left hand rail below my picture, you will see an ad generated by Microsoft adCenter Publisher. adCenter Publisher is Microsoft's new contextual advertising program for publishers to gain revenue from their traffic. This program is in Beta stage and publishers are invited to join here.
You can find one example of an ad unit I created for this blog on the left hand rail. This ad unit is merely there to show the power of adCenter Publisher when it comes to blending with the rest of the page. My picture also appears to have an unplanned blending going on with the rest of the page. I'm going to volunteer my blog to be tested on Will it blend? :) Also notice the subtle gradient across the ad unit giving it a glassy look. Lots more customization on ad units inside the product. Give it a whirl!
Below is another ad unit within this post. Notice how I've used the complementary color of blue and given it a good gradient going horizontally. This lets the ad unit stand out and gets the attention of your readers. Notice that the font style, font size are also customized increasing the stand out quality of the ad.
I have since writing this post changed the profile picture. The blog was looking way blue and that isn't what I was going for :)
Posted by: Chris Devaraj | January 15, 2009 at 01:20 AM
Nice post, good looking ad units, relevant, creative. Yeah!
Posted by: Chris N | January 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Thanks Chris. I should probably go and edit this post and the ad units as I've completely changed the blog's design in the last one week.
Posted by: Chris Devaraj | January 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Could you take a couple screenshots and a few instructions on how to put the ads on a Typepad blog.
Posted by: Chris N | January 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Makes sense. Let's get to it by middle of the week, Chris.
Posted by: Chris Devaraj | January 18, 2009 at 06:53 PM
I have never played around with gradient etc. but this example looks really good. Makes the ads stand out and tempts the user to find out what is at the other end of the link.
- Tarun
Posted by: Tarun | March 13, 2009 at 08:24 AM
Thanks Tarun. Yes, give gradients a whril!
Posted by: Chris Devaraj | March 13, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Appreciate your literary grace, is well written
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