I recall that “normal” AdSense users can pick their category for the particular ads on the page. I’m going to have to go back to Google and find that doorway cuz the automated one for iWeb isn’t going to cut it if it’s putting stuff like that one my pages.

You can’t win them all.

I had to laugh when I read your note about “suggested reading”. I am non-reader. I find it very slow and tedious so I tend to “do and fail and fail and fail and finally succeed” rather than read and learn. I have lord knows how many books on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, blah – never read any of them other than checking for things here and there. That’s just me. One thing I can say though, I’ll write a better guide for noobies than any book will. I really should get in to publishing. Some guy from Peachpit contacted me once about collaborating on a book for Photoshop, but I just wasn’t in a place to pursue that at the time.

Rambling again… AdSense… hum… good thing to note about ad visibility! Imagine all these sites now with gaping blank spaces all over their pages ;-)

I highly dislike sites with ads on them. Unless they’re extremely useful to the viewer, I find them tacky. There are so few cases where they can be “extremely” useful. You have little control over the way they look and the iWeb version does not allow you to select the category of content to display.

I think if the site owner were able to integrate them better so they didn’t appear so sterile and out of place I’d have a better opinion, but too many people just stick these on their sites because they think it makes them look more official. They’re not making an income off these things. The ad is just taking up space and I believe it detracts from your credibility more than it helps your “cool” quotient.

I prefer to create my own rotating banner ads if I’m going to do any affiliate work. I posted a script in the widget code area that allows you to do this. If you belong to any affiliate network, like RegNow or Linkshare, etc, this can be useful since you control which banners appear and the links that are tied to them.

Gads, affiliate life is another whole genre of information I could ramble about but I have to get these themes released today :)

I do like the iWeb Library site. The Widget code is going to come in very handy. I am also looking forward to the information on CSS and HTML – maybe you could also include a “suggested reading” book list for those who want to continue to learn more about how this works!

About the AdSense widget on the front desk page, I realized that in Camino I only saw the text bubble about not being a fan. Then I check my preferences and realized I had “block web advertising” checked and it definitely blocks it.