Comments on: Monthly Milestone: Archiving Ads, Bylines

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:44:22 +0000

Thanks, Dave! I’m going to miss you and Mary and the Chronicle, too. It’s been great working for you guys. And thanks to those who’ve wished me well in the comments. :)

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:31:09 +0000

You mean that’s not a photograph?

By: suswhit

suswhit — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:32:47 +0000

I second comment no. 8!

By: Pete Richards

Pete Richards — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:23:49 +0000

Tammie Graves, my goodness you’re talented.

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:04:56 +0000

Thanks, nice that they are so easily searched and archived. Some historical information there.

By: Tom Brandt

Tom Brandt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:57:49 +0000

That’s an awesome drawing of you, dude.

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:03:37 +0000

Re: [3] and [4]. For a visual display of what ads are currently in the system, this [link] will cause current ads to be slammed onto the screen all at once. In that URL is this ( to me) mysterious "heroku" which magic Trek has used to make the ads flow into the sidebars the way they do. It's that screen I will start with to create the static monthly snapshot, which is hosted inside the Chronicle's domain, thus effectively archiving them.

By: cosmonıcan

cosmonıcan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:53:42 +0000

Re: [3} Vivienne, each ad has a “View All Advertisers” banner at the bottom, click on that to find a searchable list.

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:34:42 +0000

That is interesting, that the ads are loaded “on the fly”. It explains a problem I had a couple of weeks ago in searching for a particular ad. I wanted to extract information from it but when I went back to that page, I couldn’t find it.

As far as I can tell, there is no search function for ads. How can readers return to a particular ad when wished? Some of them are very timely, for specific events, etc.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:27:27 +0000

Congratulations to Helen. It’s been great watching her grow as a reporter during her tenure here.