Today’s victim—er—ad was at the bottom of the page. All I had to do was replace an affiliate program banner with a Google AdSense banner.

Actually, that was almost easy. I created the new banner ad then replaced the old link with the new one.

I should have stopped there.

Instead, I decided we should display image ads instead of text ads, because they’d look nicer on the page and might be more effective.

Ok, so I created a second new ad that specified image-only, then replaced the new link with the newer link.

Aaaargh!

Why was everything from the skinny column, formerly on the right, now displaying below the image ad I just created? I hadn’t changed anything except the ad I was working with. I hate when stuff like this happens!!

After several back-and-forths, swapping the text ad and image ad, I concluded that the magic of web ads would remain a mystery to me. I kept the text ad, which didn’t make me happy, and gave up for the moment.

Maybe later, after a shot or two of vodka, I’ll figure it out. Or, maybe some guru reading this will take pity on me and explain it.

Obviously I wouldn’t have written this blog if the stupid code mystery wasn’t still bugging me. And, somehow, I will get an answer. But geez, this isn’t how I wanted to end my work week. Now my brain will be churning all weekend. I know I’ll be puttering on my computer at odd hours throughout the weekend, instead of relaxing and enjoying myself. Grrrr. I hate Fridays like this!