My “Bookshelf” (books) and “Noises” (CDs) lists are back on the site, now that TypePad has given us the necessary tags to work them into our templates. Since I didn’t want to go back to having sidebars on the page, but still wanted to incorporate them into the front page somehow, I’m currently experimenting with an “ad banner” style layout.
Between the 2nd and 3rd posts on At the very bottom of the main page, there’s now the “ad banner” box, displaying the most recent addition to my book and music lists. For books, this is whatever I’m currently reading, and for music, I’m more or less randomly choosing a CD every so often to pop in there. The far right side is simply a link to Amazon. As always, any purchases from these links funnel a few pennies my way. It may not be much, but every little bit helps!
a different way in putting up those details as oppose to the usual left/right column … but i find it alil out of place. it feels like intrusive, like most “ad banners” do. but looking at it from your design, there isn’t much place to put those stuff. :)
Yeah…the more I looked at it, the less happy I was with it. For now, I’ve moved it down to the bottom of the page — I think later on I’ll create a seperate “media” page.