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July 17th, 2007

Church of England Newspaper website goes all funny

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The Church of England Newspaper website has suddenly turned rather splendidly bizarre. They have started to use the ‘adbrite’ advertising system with some gloriously inappropriate messages that pop up when you roll your mouse over certain words. I fund the one above quite pleasing – I had not heard that there is a demand for ‘saber tooth cat skulls’ amongst Evangelical Anglicans, but perhaps someone reading knows better.

It really is quite baffling – even some of the menu items at the top have these irritating rollovers added, making the site immensely annoying to use. None of the adverts have anything at all to do with any of the words they pop up from.

Perhaps there is more money to be made from peddling loans and remortgages online that there is from reporting Anglican news from an Evangelical perspective. Who would have thought it?

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9 Responses to “Church of England Newspaper website goes all funny”


  1. wannabepriest / You gotta laugh says:

    [...] Speaking of finding worse, Dave Walker drew my attention this morning to the Church of England Newspaper website where some bright spark has decided to sign-up to the adbrite advertising system in order, presumably, to try and ‘monetize’ (as the web industry seems to describe it) their content. They have managed to do it in such a phenomenally stupid way that I can’t let it pass by without comment. [...]

    July 17th, 2007 at 10:37 am
  2. Peter Kirk says:

    What’s more, from the spelling and pricing it is an American sabre tooth cat skull. Perhaps Evangelical Anglicans in the USA, inspired by their new Nigerian mentors, will be stocking up on such things to fight off, or frighten off, their rivals in the inevitable schism there.

    July 17th, 2007 at 10:39 am
  3. Phill says:

    Hey, who doesn’t want a “Saber” tooth cat skull? I should imagine it would be useful for a church minister – put a few up round the church, keep the congregation on their toes…

    The ‘solution’ to Adbrite is to use Firefox with the ‘NoScript’ or ‘Adblock’ extensions – both will prevent the annoying popup ads.

    July 17th, 2007 at 11:06 am
  4. Suzy says:

    Eeuuuurgh! That is just a hideous thing to do to a website!!!

    July 17th, 2007 at 11:13 am
  5. joe says:

    I’m shocked. Nobody told me that the Church of England Newspaper reported Anglican News from an Evangelical perspective. Shocked I tell you.

    July 17th, 2007 at 11:24 am
  6. jody says:

    I was considering getting CEN online the other day, glad I didn’t now. but the newspaper which is meant to arrive on fridays, arrived on saturday for the 29th June and 6th July and only just arrived today for the 13th July edition

    not pleased.

    July 17th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
  7. Ellen says:

    juts clicked on the ‘bouncy castle fundraiser’ pop up. Blimey, it’s a jungle out there…

    July 17th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
  8. Paul G says:

    Phill is right about the Firefox plug-ins. But I feel a bit left out now!

    Paul

    July 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
  9. Sarah B says:

    Dave, I’m disappointed… have you never been to a service in honour of St Didimus with the traditional procession of the sabre-toothed cat skull in memory of the saint’s salvation from said creature????!!!

    (why is it more worrying it’s an “American sabre tooth cat skull”? I’d be more unnerved if such things COULD be found in the UK as surely it would require live ones somewhere?

    July 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm