Google AdSense + YouTube = AdSense Video Units

While people seem to become every day blinder about AdSense ads, Google is about to launch a new ad together with YouTube.

Unlike the currently running AdSense “video ads”, that we can call “Well animated ads”, now I am talking about a YouTube video unit with Google ads embedded into them. At the moment, only some choosen videos will display ads, meaning you will not be able to earn money showing your own videos in the player.

At the moment in my AdSense admin area I don’t have any video option, because currently this feature is open only to publishers located in the United States with English-language websites, as said on the official blog

This video explains how to create and configure this new feature, that I imagine Google will launch worldwide very very soon.

It’s an interesting new feature, because I think normal ads are boring people, but the size (starting from 400 to 700 pixels wide) of video ads is rather big and I think they won’t fit in any site.

I hope designers and bloggers won’t fill their pages with ads if they don’t have enough space to make them fit, otherwise we will see even more sites ruined by what I call “ads frenziness”.

Will you embed video ads?

Make a Flash game like Flash Element Tower Defense - Part 1

November 11th update: part 2 released

One of the most popular Flash games around the web during last months was a game (with some variants) called Flash Element TD, “a Macromedia Flash based Warcraft TD game inspired by Element TD for WarcraftIII”, as says its author, David Scott.

The game concept is simple: there is a road, and some minions walking that road. You have to kill all minions before they reach the end of the road. You can build several facilities to kill minions and earn money to upgrade weapons as the minions get stronger and faster.

In this first part of the tutorial, I’ll cover the minion walking.

It’s a very complex task, that will require almost 30 lines!

Let’s start showing the objects required to make it work Read more

Related Link: Desktop tower defense for my ps3 console is one of the best flash games around.

Customizing WordPress header - part 2

This is not a proper tutorial, but an additional hint about WP customization.

In the previous part I told you how to create a custom WP header. Following that tutorial you should be able to create your own custom header.

But obviously every blog has a custom header. How to differentiate from the masses?

How about having a different header for every category in our WP blog? Without installing any plugin? (I made the last question because I don’t know if there is already a plugin doing this job, but anyway it may be useful learning how to do it on your own)

Let’s start preparing the background images.

For this example, I am using those two backgrounds, one for the “default” pages, one for the pages about Flash.

Now it’s time to edit the file header.php located into your wp-content/themes/theme_name directory.

This is how to change what I coded in the first part Read more

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