Ok, so when you are floating ads on the left or right, and someone has a small resolution like 1024x768 or lower. The ads end up going over the boards. http://idirectory.vforums.co.uk

Is there anyway where when it's floating. It will push the boards over, so it doesn't overlap? I don't want to add it into the left hand column, because it doesn't look right, and doesn't look right with the main site, which in fact, I have to tell Dwight about what it does on the main site pushing down the members info table down underneath the ads.

Floating is a css alternative that pushes it on top of the content. To stop this, used the fixed. Floating is ideal for places with large screens, or small boarded theme. So use the right/left if you want it done.

However, a good suggestion building on top of yours I think is: Allow us to choose ad displays per skin.

So what you mean is add it in left hand column? If so, I don't like how it is, Maybe add in a Z-index to the floating? I dunno.

and yes, per-skin would be better than global, mainly because different skins are different. So in a skin, it'd have to be above welcome, but in the next skin it has to be below the welcome table, but it messes up those skins.

If that made sense at all?

Unfortunately whenever there is a competition between either forum content or the ad being on top, the ad has to win. Not our rules, that is dictated by our ad provider (which for all skyscraper ads is Google). We are not allowed to have any content overlapping the ad.

What is it about the left/right hand column formats that doesn't seem right?

Not overlapping, more like the ads pushing the forum over a bit. Have it like how the left/right hand column is.

About the left/right hand column, it's fine, but on a big screen it obviously doesn't move over into the bigger space (the space between the edge of the browser to the forum table), but it's fine on smaller res. screens, as it's pushing the forum over anyways.


Example:

Forum:
http://mirrorimg.net/images/ma2.png


Site:
http://mirrorimg.net/images/tr7.png

Just like my site has it, it pushes the content over. But if you can, have it resize the forum like it does the "left/right hand column" When the screen res gets bigger, the ads move away from the forum and into it's own area.