20% of visitors view this site at 1024 pixels wide or less, so the site was set at 1000 pixels wide. The deer you see on the sides is a background image, nothing more. I thought about just a solid color, but kind of liked the monster muleys on each side. You know, cause of the site being called monster muleys and all.
I've been thinking over the past couple of days of increasing the width of the site another 200 pixels, or 20%. It would mean that 20% of site visitors would need to scroll right to see some content though. Not sure about that. Scrolling side to side REALLY sucks, more than seeing large chunks of background image as some of you are seeing.
As for ads in place of the deer on either side, I may very well pursue a sponsor to there. I don't know.
As far as complaining that there are already enough buck pictures on this site, you're crazy. There can never be enough!!! When people visit this site, I want them to feel surrounded by big bucks, big bulls, etc. When someone looks at this site, I want them leaving with an incredible desire to go hunting.
Anyway, if you've read this far into my post, then you must be really bored. Ha Ha Seriously, I'm still kicking around thoughts on the look of the site. I've heard LOTS of opinions, and they're all over the place, so..........
The fact is, the main content portion of this site is larger now than it was before. The width increase allowed for wider ads, but wider main content area also. Proportionally however, the ads did increase because I moved them from the bottom of the page to the side.
Fact is, the ads are needed. And not only needed, but needed in a manner that visitors see the them. Without the ads, I would have to get a job and shut the site down. I need the visitors of this site to see the ads, and hopefully consider purchasing product or service from the advertisers. It's that simple.
Look at this, I just wasted 10 minutes explaining all this stuff to you all when in the end, many still won't understand or care. If you read this far into my blab session then you're on this site for the wrong reason anyway. You should be here to talk and think about big bucks and bulls, and hunting, and all that. NOT to discuss the size of ads, and what's on the side, and all that crap. I do the best I can to make this site the best I can with my limited resources (financial and otherwise).
Yes, I have heard people say, "well can't you just do this or that like Facebook". Do people not know that Facebook has about 3,000 more employees than MonsterMuleys.com and probably a ZIG ZILLION more dollars. Of course I want the greatest site on the planet, but such a thing doesn't come out of thin air.
So that's that. Now I'm at 15 minutes of the day wasted. LOL I gotta get work done.
Brian Latturner
MonsterMuleys.com