Comments on: Set Us Up The Catfish - Part 2: SlideMe

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:09:46 +0000

hy!
i´ve the same problem like Sharathbabu.
On pageload the catfish is visible.

can anybody help us?
tanks a lot!!

By: Sharathbabu

Sharathbabu — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:48 +0000

Iam not able to hide the catfish div on pageload its visible..can u pls help me

By: Mikke

Mikke — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:54:49 +0000

“At SitePoint, we serve a range of different Catfish ads in rotation. The ads themselves are deployed via JavaScript, rather than appearing statically in our code. Information about how this can be achieved will be the subject of a future blog post!”

Please, Where that post?

By: AlexW

AlexW — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:28:17 +0000

Hi, Can the catfish ad be served through a ad engine such as openad’s or must be hardcoded to the site..?

It’s unlikely that it would be supported by default but it’s just CSS, HTML and JS, so making OpenAds use catfish units shouldn’t be super difficult.

Ours are served by a custom system, so I can’t give you a definitive answer on OpenAds, though I know other sites are now using the Catfish on a larger scale than we are.

By: iqbals@starhub.com

iqbals@starhub.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:14:19 +0000

Hi, Can the catfish ad be served through a ad engine such as openad’s or must be hardcoded to the site..?

By: ilyas

ilyas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:40:55 +0000

a neat little ad. good job guys.

By: caynada

caynada — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:42:00 +0000

Stupid questions, but where am I doing this:

margin-bottom: -79px;

and this:

/*
2 html {
3 padding:0 0 58px 0;
4 }
5 */

In the linked css file?

I did that, it hide it but it doesn’t come into view…

Any suggestions?

By: malique

malique — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:37:02 +0000

is it possible to have the link disable to users who have clicked on “close me”, and only to reappear again when unique, new ip, cookie/etc.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:17:52 +0000

I can’t get this to work in IE without a lot of page flickering. Anyone else have problems like that?

By: kingk1974

kingk1974 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:21:34 +0000

Hello,

I am unable to see the final result the page comes up with a 403 Error:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /examples/catfish-part2/slideme.php on this server.
Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at http://www.sitepoint.com Port 80

Also I was unable to get catfish to work unless I added this code to my catfishdeploy.js page:
/* Stack up window.onload events using this function from Simon Willison - http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=171578 */
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != ‘function’) {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function() {
oldonload();
func();
}
}
}

function destroycatfish()
{
var catfish = document.getElementById(’catfish’);
document.body.removeChild(catfish); /* clip catfish off the tree */
document.getElementsByTagName(’html’)[0].style.padding= ‘0′; /* reset the padding at the bottom */
return false;
}
function closeme()
{
var closelink = document.getElementById(’closeme’);
closelink.onclick = destroycatfish;

}
addLoadEvent(function() {
closeme();
});

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Here’s my testing page:
http://www.kennethking.com/_private/catfish/part2/index.php

Thanks for all your help,
Kenenth