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Balancing Programming with Writing

For me, the great downfall of technology has always been that writers and publishers encounter so many technical issues whenever they venture online that they have no time left to actually write. This has been my unfortunate situation for the past few days, as I attempted to redesign my website to incorporate some unobtrusive advertising.

Being somewhat skilled at webdesign, I thought that the redesign would be a snap. Obviously, I’m still not skilled enough to remember that no programming task is ever a snap. There is always a glitch. Always.

Changing the layout was a snap thanks to Liew Cheon Fong, who has released a great 3 column revision of the default Kubrick theme.

The particular issue this time is that the Google ads display perfectly fine in Explorer and Safari, but they do not display in Firefox. The strange thing is that using Firefox I can see Google ads on other sites, but not my own site. So, it is not, as Adsense support suggested, a problem with my Javascript or adblocking settings.

I am thinking that the problem may have to do with the Kubrick theme itself, since ads do not display on either the default or the three column Kubrick design. Also, after looking through the WordPress support forums I have found a number of posts on this issue, but the problem still remains unresolved.

Here are two links on the WordPress forums relating to this problem:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/40709
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31020

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. Liew, I noticed that you have Google ads displaying on your site, and I can see them in Firefox. How did you do it?

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  1. Thank you for the plug. Hope you like the theme. :)

  2. I do nothing to display the google ads. I can see your adsense ads here too. Seems like it is your Firefox problem. Maybe uninstall and resintall it will solve the problem?

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