We’ve added a new feature for our advanced members who want to use the same ad on multiple pages with different colour schemes. If you log in to your account and take a look at your ad box code, you’ll notice a few new lines of code and many lines of comments explaining how to use them.

Look for the lines: foregroundColor=''; and backgroundColor='';

If you edit these with the hexadecimal that you want for your foreground and background colours (i.e. backgroundColor='ff0000'; for a bright red), they will override the settings that you set in the ad box properties on our site.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about don’t worry! Cutting and pasting in the code that we generate will still work just fine.

-Tim

This is the official Project Wonderful blog.

We’ll be using it to announce features, discuss tips and tricks for using the service and generally try to keep on top of all things Wonderful.

I’d like to start with the new features that we rolled out on the 12th.

First off are the new 300×250 rectangular ads. Quite a few publishers requested this size and we’re happy to oblige! They look like this:

With the new rectangles, we’re now offering 7 different formats for your ads and ad boxes (you can see them all here).

The other thing we’ve added is the ability to suspend your ad boxes. Say you want to take your site offline for some maintenance, you can deactivate your ad box, which will suspend all bids on it. When you reactivate the box, any bids that haven’t expired will reappear. These options are available under “My ad boxes” -> “Edit ad box”. This allows you to signal to us that your site will be down for a while. We won’t send our robot back until you’ve reactivated your ad box!

Our robot will still be diligently checking on all publisher sites to make sure that the ads are displaying properly. If a site goes down unexpectedly, or a publisher forgets to suspend the box, then the robot will suspend bidding as normal.

Email us at service@projectwonderful.com if you have any questions!

–Tim