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Removing Banners from your site By Ankit Fadia ankit@bol.net.in
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Warning: Experienced Programmers might find this manual lame
and I do not guarantee that these tricks will always work.
Today, there
are a number of websites, which offer you free webspace and a reasonably good
URL, for free. This service has become very popular as it is the easiest and
fastest way of putting up your site on the net, getting an identity for yourself
and becoming a part of the huge web.
However, like most good things, this too has a catch. These
services require each page that you host on their server to have a banner or
advertisement embedded in it. This not only affects the downloading time of the
visitors (who visit your site), but also affects, the way you position various
elements on a particular page. For Example, if the banner which is automatically
embedded at the top of each page has too many colors, then you might have to
change the color that you use for other elements of your page, so as to make
them (the elements like Navigation Bar) more visible.
What is more, if you are using frames on your site, then each
frame will have an individual banner embedded in it. This results in the
positioning of various elements going haywire and makes your page look extremely
pathetic. Talk about getting framed!!!! (This is one of the reasons as to why
you should avoid using frames on your site)
Anyway, in this HT manual, we will learn just how to get rid
of these irritating banners and to make your free webpage really kewl.
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HACKING TRUTH: The banners which
are embedded are just about the only source of income for these websites, so if
you are caught carrying out any of the below 'No Banner' tricks, then you would
possible lose your account. So BEWARE!!!
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Anyway, the tricks that you can execute to prevent embedded
banners from displaying vary from service to service. It basically depends on as
to which website you have your account on.
GEOCITIES
Place
the below code after the end HTML
tag:
<noscript>
Angelfire/FreeServers/50Megs/FortuneCity/Netscape
Place
the below code anywhere on the page:
<script
language="JavaScript">
function open() {}
</script>
The above snippet
will give an error and normally no other JavaScipt code would be executed, so no
banner would be displayed. However, it doesn't work in all cases, so there is
yet another Hack for Angelfire: Sorround the BODY tag with the below code:
<noscript></noscript>
TRIPOD
Same
as ths second hack for Angelfire
XOOM
To prevent banners
from displaying on your webpage hosted by XOOM, replace the standard URL with
the below URL:
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/username/
Removing Pop Up Banners
Well, some of the above
tricks also seem to stop pop up banners from being displayed. However, another
option that could be propagated would be to ask all visitors to install a
Software called AddsOFF which stops new windows (pop up ads) from being
displayed. But again this is not a feasible option. Infact, some personal
firewalls also filter out code which open pop up Banners.
Getting a FREE (Banner Free) .COM
registration
1. The NameZero Hack
Most of you must have heard of NameZero, which gives you a
free .Com (or .Net or .ORG) registration and in return puts up a huge banner at
the bottom of each page. Well, putting the following piece of code after the
TITLE tag would do the trick for you: (Sometimes the following hack is said to
not work, if that is the case then try the NameDemo hack instead. Either of the
two will definitely work.)
<SCRIPT
LANGUAGE="Javascript">
<!--
if (parent.frames.length)
parent.location.href= self.location;
// -->
</script>
2. The NameDemo Hack
Simply add the following to the first page of the home page of your site, after the <BODY> opening tag:
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
if (top.location != self.location) {
top.location = self.location.href
}
//-->
</script>
Again, I would like to say that if any
of these tricks do not work, then kindly do not flame me. This manual was aimed
at simply giving you a general idea as to how to go about removing banners. It
is basically for getting you started.
Ankit Fadia
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