The Skull Cinema

I 've discussed the process of making static pages previously. What follows is only related to decisions on the content of the About, Contact and Privacy Policy pages that are needed for the Google AdSense program. Let's start with the About page. When I set up the domain I ticked the privacy option to keep my details off WHOIS . So it would seem a bit silly to splatter a load of personal information back onto the web in an About Us page. Better to keep it short and generic then. If Google would like me to have an About page what does Google's look like? Our mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful . Well that is short and to the point. I'm not aiming for quite that level of coverage but in the first post on this blog I set out what I was about. Given that information, the following is suitably anodyne , The world is too complex to be made difficult. By relying on direct experience to help make t...

Just a very small post on this topic. While I was uploading the images for the previous post I ran into an issue with uploading images from my PC to Blogger. It took me a while to work out what was happening here, which is why I am posting this. When you choose Upload from computer from the image tool dropdown. It opens a File Open dialog box. As you can see, the first three images are identical apart from their names. But when you hit Open only two of four files are displayed in the Add Images box It seems that Blogger won't allow image files starting with AdSense to be uploaded (capitalisation is disregarded). Clearing the browser cache had no effect and the images were viewable in the Blogger album archive. However adding an underscore (_) to the front of the image name solved the problem.

The result of the AdSense review is in and it's time to assess the outcome. I have described my experience of the applicant's portion of the application process for an AdSense account in more detail previously. In total the process wasn't really that complicated, although it wasn't completely plain sailing either. There was quite a lot of information spread across multiple pages that managed to be complex but not specific (as in exactly what Google expects from the website), which I found somewhat frustrating. However the process was completed and left at the review stage in which Google submits the site to an internal review against a set of not-completely-clear-to-me criteria. I finished my part of the process with an active but non-operational AdSense account. Over the next week the number of accessible tabs on the menu of the account fluctuated, but the We're reviewing your site notice remained. I assume that the steady appearance of the tabs was mo...