If you take a look at the sidebar of the site now, you’ll notice I ditched the big ole’ Google Ads. This is because I have joined Pistach.io‘s Flash Pack and now will be running only that banner in the place of the larger, slower, more annoying Google Ads banners that were in the sidebar before. This will speed up the pages load times throughout the site and reduce the long scrolling sidebar to a more manageable level.

Aral Balkan and Dave Stone from Built By Dave, this network of sites operates under a simple premise similar to the The Deck, run by Coudal Partners. Smaller numbers of ads through a smaller network, placed on good sites that reach people that might actually be interested in the products and services running in that placement. Rates for the ads are really quite reasonable, and the backend is very very solid. It’s built on Amazon’s EC2, S3, and SimpleDB systems. If you are interested in placing an ad on the network please visit Pistach.io.

I’m proud and very happy to be in the Flash Pack with such an esteemed list of bloggers. I’ll let Aral publish that list at his site, but it’s a virtual who’s who in Flash platform blogs. This new ad placement will not change my focus which is and has been my experiments, thoughts and opinions in and around web design/development and creating content in the Flash ecosystem. I welcome your comments and suggestions about this move.

Sidenote… Just to let you know, I have a list of topics lined up in the coming weeks that I think will be valuable content to my readers. A couple book reviews, some more source code, a couple little gotchas and more of the regular commentary on current developments. As always thanks for visiting and continuing to prompt me to write.

Posted on May 3, 2008

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