People are forever asking me to use this site to announce events and fundraisers and the like, and, frankly, life’s too short. I don’t want to open the floodgates by announcing some, so I announce none. That’s problem #1. Problem #2 is that my washing machine died a few weeks ago, and I can’t seem track down a used one to buy for a few bucks.
Solution: cvillenews.com text ads. If you’re looking to buy something, selling something for $100 or less, want to freecycle something, or announcing some kind of a community or non-profit event, you can take out a free little ad that will appear on every page on the site. Just fill out the little form, and your ad will start appearing once I OK it.
This is thoroughly experimental. If it’s not useful to anybody, I’ll get rid of it and we’ll make like it never happened. If it’s wildly successful, I may enhance it in any number of ways. When bugs appear, maybe I’ll fix ’em. Give it a whirl.
So… About that washer?
Have you tried the The Habitat Store? They usually have good stuff.
I had no idea they had appliances. I’ll definitely do that.
I think the textads are a good idea. Is there a way to browse all the ads in the system?
And the right-hand menu pane for the page isn’t rendering correctly for me in Firefox. IE shows it correctly, but I don’t use IE if I can help it.
Is there a way to browse all the ads in the system?
No, but that is certainly the next feature that I will add.
Sorry about the Firefox rendering. For some reason, Gecko munges the layout. I think I’ll try to force it with a <br clear=”all” /> or another DIV or something. I certainly don’t want to give anybody cause to use IE. :)
By the way — check out cvillemovies.com. Text ad syndication!
The ad alignment on the page is a little funky in firefox – it’s basically transposed over the category and archive drop-downs.
oops, I can’t read, heh. ;) Sorry.
OK, the alignment is solved by, stupidly, dropping an in after the ad block. Totally unnecessary, as per W3C specs, but whatever. :)