About an hour ago, I decided that I wanted to build a website in addition to this blog. I quickly scourged Google for free web hosts, and found only a few that offered "no-ads" but they all had some sort of catch or queue. Being impatient I reluctantly chose a site that offered free web hosting, but put its own Google Adsense ads on your page. I wouldn't have minded, but I wasn't given control over the ads' placements or color schemes and they really looked hideous. I realized I would have to figure out a way to remedy the situation myself.
After uploading a sample webpage, I navigated and veiwed its source. After re-uploading, a few slightly modified versions of that page I noticed that the hosting service was appending the code for all of its ads right after the first <body> tag. I experimented with comments, trying things like <body <!-- but whenever I placed the last > the ad code would escape the comment.
I decided to bend the rules of HTML. To solve the problem I made the first <body <!-- tag and then another <body> after it. The ad code generated by the HTML parser ended the comment and my second body tag worked perfectly. Wa-lah, no ads. Mark one loss for HTML parsers. Mark one win for me.
Showing posts with label No Ads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No Ads. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2009
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