Automatic Scrolling

[merrycosta]

Hello,

I've hosted my web-site on a new server. Now, they are displaying their ads on the top of every page which looks very un-professional. Since, there is no way to turn this off, I'm planning to ad small JavaScript on every page. It should be like when the page gets loaded, it should automatically scroll down to few size so that when the user visits my page, he should see only the contents of web-page and not ad.

Is that possible or any such sample JavaScript available?

Thanks

[Spudhead]

You could do that. Alternatively, you could use an anchor tag partway down the page, and onLoad="window.location.href='mypage.html#realcontentstart'"

Although your hosts may well have some sort of TOS clause that any attempt to circumnavigate their ads will violate.

[merrycosta]

Thanks for ur reply.

[Beck]

This is an interesting issue to me: the desire not to remove the ad, but simply scroll past it; is this ethical? It's not like blocking ads, or deleting them. But they aren't being presented to website viewers the way the provider intended for them to be.

I think it should be all right, but are there any laws? Opinions? Thoughts?

[arnyinc]

I think it's unethical to bypass or obscure the webhost's revenue source. It's slightly "nicer" than erasing the ad, and by jumping down every time you load a page, you might draw even more attention to the banner ad (the user might think, what the heck is up there and scroll up to see rather than just ignoring it like every other banner ad).

But basically if you don't want banner ads, pay up for a host or host it on your own computer. I'm sure what you're attempting to do is against the webhost's TOS, but maybe they'll never find out. :)