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Old 05-07-2007, 03:39 PM
BradleyT BradleyT is offline
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Default Re: Who hired the 6th Grader?

I'm not looking for work (as someone above may have implied) but I just took about 5 minutes to replicate the banner using only text (except the 2+2 logo).

And here's what it looks like -


compared to -




<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.banner {
background-color: #589346;
width: 450px;
text-align:center;
color:#fff;
font-size:18px;
}
img { border:none; }
a:link {
text-decoration:none;
color:#fff;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color:#fff;
}
.bannerContent {
float:left;
text-align:center;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="banner"><a href="http://www.twoplustwo.com/bonus/">
<div>Two Plus Two Publishing LLC</div>
<div><img src="http://www.twoplustwo.com/images/twoimages/cardsBasic_BWO.png" /></div>
<div class="bannerContent">New! Five </div><div style="color:#FF0000;" class="bannerContent">Free</div><div class="bannerContent"> Two Plus Two Books with poker site signup!</div>
<div>The Best Deal on the Internet!</div>
<div>(For Non-US members only. Click for details.)</div>
</a></div>
</body>
</html>

You get some minor SEO benefits by having the ad as all text. But anyway, maybe they don't teach stuff like this till 10th grade.
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