DannieG

After two days of working till 3am, AtlanMeer website is finally up and running. Great big thanks to wordpress theme - Futurosity Eos - without it I’d be still lost in space. And YES I’m using a blog platform to operate the whole site, once I figured out how to add template scrips the rest is easy - 3am easy.

As for the over all design I didn’t feel it needed to be so corporation like, it’s just a small side project I’m onto. However I do like it to be elegant ( I don’t mean Edwardian Script elegant ). Recent years I feel like stuck in the sans-serif curse, everything I touch turns into sans-serif, simplicity is good… to an extend, people point to google and tell me simple is what sells, and I think if every thing is designed as google-simple how boring would that be, maybe then, dying of boredom would take upon some weight.

What is missing? What am I missing, frustrated, talking to myself, trying to find out why did the design turn to this again, it’s not bad, people would def. pay for the design as it is. However, I don’t like it, something is making it so blank, like a pretty face with no personality. Then I realized that I was cursed with the touch of sans-serif. With the solution in mind, it took another day to redesign everything. The development work isn’t completely done, I’ve yet upload the magazine, nor have I contented other pages but two days straight of working till 3am, I’m pretty beat, will leave it as is for now and look into finishing up the stuff tomorrow.

Phew that was a mouth full. The name is Max, Max Banner Ads, the mission — impossible … *cough* I mean, impossibly lazy. I for one are extremely lazy when it comes to banner ads, as a blogger, I think banner ads are something pretty important to have around ( I’m still in the hope I can make a living off it, yeah that will be the day! ) as much as I need them, really don’t want to get down and dirty with all the technology behind it. What’s a girl to do, Lucky for me, Max saves the day - Max Banner Ads - “easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes.” There are two versions of this Wordpress Plugin, free and $40 pro, after trying out the free version first, I’d went ahead and bought the Pro version, because the text link on the free version sometimes messes up my blog layout - which is the only difference between “Free | Pro” the Free has a one liner text link to link back to Max blog ad, but caused some serious problems on my blog’s layout, the pro version has no text link, which you can see, works perfectly with my blog. I suggest anyone interested to try out with a free version to see if it fits your needs.

On DannieG.com aka this blog thing you are reading now, I’ve used Max Banner ads within the post section, I think I have about 10 different sponsored Ads (as of this post date) stored for the post section, each time user refresh the page the banner ad on the upper left corner will rotate/change to a new one, so basically I just have to set the code once and never worry about it.  however I didn’t use it on the sidebar (since I want a better control over the sidebar section). Over all Max Banner Ads it’s a solid plug-in, one of a few that charges but it’s really worth the money if you are serious about putting ads on your blog.

So head over to Max Banner Ads and have a look for yourself, if you are not interested, head over anyways they have a super cool spy+starwar like introduction video.