hello everyone! we’ve been talking about this as a community since before the discourse launch, so i’m pretty excited to roll this out!
first, i’ll ask that folks kindly consider turning off your ad blocker for the discourse.32bit.cafe website, as we’ll now be displaying banner ads on the forum!
ADS?! NOOO—
not the bad kind! the 32-bit cafe will now have a banner exchange promoting personal websites and projects around the independent web—and you can submit your banner right now!
sizes are limited to 728x90 and 320x50, and we recommend sending in a version of both for mobile responsiveness. they can be animated or static as long as they are in image formats (.gif, .png, .jpg, etc). feel free to submit as many banners as you’d like, but each form is attributed to one URL. if you have multiple URLs you’d like to submit, resubmit the form for each URL.
rules for banners:
no NSFW banners. try to creatively censor curse words so we can keep browsing the forum at work!
no commercial, for-profit projects. donation-based or subscription-model projects are OK, as long as the project is available for free and helps the independent web in some way.
advertising projects that aren’t your own is OK. try to get permission from the project owner before doing this, but if you can’t, at least make the banner as non-controversial as possible.
you might begin to see ads promoting 32-bit cafe projects as we roll out these banner ads, and as we get more banners submitted, individual member’s banners! so excited to see what y’all come up with to promote your websites and projects!
This might be a silly question, but are the banners longest horizontally or vertically? I’m assuming the first length is the x axis but I just want to make sure ^^
Also just a heads up that on tally the smaller banner is written as “32x50” instead of 320x50
Anyways, I’ll probably make one for my rainbow pages :3
I’ve been excited to learn about other people’s projects with banners, but unfortunately the animations were too distracting so I had to turn off ads again.
Could there perhaps be a thread of banners as well, so we can see them in one place?
and no worries - i know banner ads won’t be for everyone. having a list (in this thread, perhaps?) might help still showcase those projects and sites :)
edit the main post now has a list of the banners with links to the sites advertised! :)
YES, i’ve been wanting to make banner ads for my site on neocities, but when I saw that the banner exchange project on neocities hadn’t been updated I was bummed, but I’m really glad we’re picking it back up again.
I really think this could help spread the word of smaller sites and projects, and just be an overall banger of time to make!
Thanks again!