Need info on ad sizes and ad-related CSS

Hi guys,

We sell web ads for our newspaper; not AdSense ads, but actual, in-house developed web ads. I need to know what sizes of ad are available in the newspaper theme so I can redesign our media kit with dimensions that will work with our new site. Is this information available in some sort of list form somewhere? I’d love to just be able to look things like this up rather than harass you with incessant questions. I feel like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to know. I also have no idea what “Post Template 1, 11, 12, 13, etc.” mean. Are there specific ad sizes for those? Is it possible, for example, to have a long vertical 120×600 ad going along the side of the sidebar?

Anyway, my main question is, in trying to figure out what ads can go where, I inserted an “Article Top Ad”, which works fine, but the ad itself is too close to the content below. I just need maybe 30 pixels of breathing room between the ad and the content. Is there a way within the theme panel to specify spacing, or is it necessary to insert some css? If the latter, what are the CSS selectors that govern margins for the ads, and where would I insert the appropriate code to space things out a bit?

I think you can put any size you want in the custom ad boxes as long as it fits layout and you use modern responsive CSS3.

You might want to look at the IAB standard international ad unit sizes as a guideline, too.

( I don’t work here. )

Yes, I looked in the documentation first. There is lots of information there, but the majority deals with AdSense, which I do not use.

There is a small section dealing with non-AdSense ads, and that deals mostly with how to hide certain ads on certain devices. There is nothing there regarding ad sizes, CSS selectors and how I would add space between the ad and the content beneath, which was my original question.

As noted, use CSS.

For example, if you put an ad div into an ad unit, do something like

<div class="mysidebarazunit">
my ad code as javascript or HTML
</div>

.mysidebarazunit {margin-top:10px;text-align-center;width:100%;height:auto;}

You can also do the above using simple text widget for sidebar ads.

Or, even use an ad manager plugin and use ad manager widget from plugin to do things like random ads, etc.

Sounds like the best solution would be is to use an Ad Manager plug in, there is many, so you guys recommend one over another? I am in the same position that we do not want to plug in Ad Sense and want to be able to plug in ads in certain spots. Thanks

I have used AdRotate for several years. But there are many out there, depending on level of need (e.g., some complex ones let you ‘sell’ ads, and give advertisers stats, etc.).

There is a few AdRotate, which one? And assuming you can plug in your own ads and get away from AdSense if you don’t want to?