Google Adsense Sidebox

[brisbanetimeout]

Hi,

does it take a long time to load... I went to a freinds computer who has cable (normal broadband) and it took less than 5 seconds to load ??? .. Did you have your 14,400 bps modem hooked up ??

Seriously was it slow ?? Can other people mind checking it out for me and let me know what you think as I have to put another 300 products on there yet...there is 350 products on there now....
www.timeoutmassage.com.au/zen

Thanks
Dave

[wasana]

I do hope someone else responds so you don't think I'm trippin... (you could make a new post - 'that guy said my site is slow, and I think he is crazy' - and 'does it matter' you'll definitely get evaluated.

your friend must have a pipe running through his phone line...of course you would get some outlines and images etc showing up in just a few seconds, but your site keeps loading for a very long time...a veeeerrryy looonnngg time. look at it with the Status Bar turned on. Firefox pegs your page size at over 812KB... do a search on the web about recommended page size...

your images are over 20KB each - that alone will tell you your site is slow to load - if your friend has visited your site before, these images might be cached. you'll be very happy with the image handler contribution... I think that scrolling sidebox is wreaking havoc on you too... (again all new product pics getting loaded)

you might want to look at your site with Firefox and the web dev tool kit - view your homepage http://www.timeoutmassage.com.au/ with FF and the header is broken (different width) - nice chiropractic affect on the skeleton...your home page is over 100K too...

I have ADSL which sometimes is up moving at over 300 - however, today in our real world test I was getting a meager 77 kbps... most users are going to visit you using IE, and maybe they don't care that it takes minutes to stop loading, and maybe your demographic all have consistently high high-speed connections, but in the interest of internet harmony and zen-like ecommerce I thought I'd let you know.

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my site http://hiquatec.com
how do I center the add in the google adsense sidebox at the bottom left?

[gilby]

my site http://hiquatec.com
how do I center the add in the google adsense sidebox at the bottom left?

Easy, use the files that are in the mod
In the file where you add the stuff from google you have removed the div that does this

You need to add your google code between the 2 single quotes ''
Not remove the rest of the code as you have done

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http://hiquatec.com

yea removed all that trying to make it centered.

i put everything back exactly how it was before but it still wont center
this is my code.

<?php
/**
* Google Adsense Side Box Template
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
*
* @version $Id: tpl_google_adsense.php 2006-06-06 06:06:06Z gilby
*
*/
$content = '<div id="googleadsenseContent" class="sideBoxContent centeredContent">';
/* Your google code goes between the 2 single quotes in the next line */
$content .= '<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2369158395925433";
/* 145x600, created 8/9/08 */
google_ad_slot = "7011027480";
google_ad_width = 160;
google_ad_height = 600;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>';
$content .= '</div>';
?>

http://hiquatec.com

[gilby]

http://hiquatec.com

google_ad_client = "pub-2369158395925433";
/* 145x600, created 8/9/08 */
google_ad_slot = "7011027480";
google_ad_width = 160;
google_ad_height = 600;
http://hiquatec.com

Are you sure this is right??
google_ad_width = 160;

Just above that it says the size is 145x600
I haven't tried it but you might have 15px padding on the rhs

PS: The ad width looks more like 120px (as the column width is 150px)

[gilby]

Just tried it and the width of your ad is 120px not 160px

change
google_ad_width = 160;
to
google_ad_width = 120;

See if that works!

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Just tried it and the width of your ad is 120px not 160px

change
google_ad_width = 160;
to
google_ad_width = 120;

See if that works!

Thanks Gilby it worked

[sumri]

Hi,

just finished install google adsense module for my website.unfortunately, after installation, i can't see google_adsense.php in sidebox list (Tools > Layout Boxes Controller)

can somebody help me?

thanks.

[bettysue]

Does anyone know if this will work on v1,27?

thank you,

betty