Test All Banner Ad Sizes, Please
There’s a banner ad for the DVD release of Disaster Movie that caught my eye:
Why did it catch my eye? Because I like stupid-funny films? No, because I had to mouse over it to get to the text in the Web site beneath it, and a panel rolled out that didn’t make sense.
I moused over the area between the read synopsis/watch trailer thing, and out rolls a panel:
Then, I roll over the woman to the right, and out pops the synopsis:
Finally, if you roll over the woman on the extreme left, a panel about the woman in the cheerleader outfit pops out:
I know what you’re saying. Director, that’s a design decision. Probably not. Whereas the decision to pop all panels out of the horizontal center of the banner ad is a bad design decision, the poorly located hot spots probably result from hastily redoing the ad for different sized locations. In any banner ad campaign, each banner ad comes in a variety of sizes, from the long horizontal ones that appear atop the pages (to smaller versions of the same for different places where the ad will appear) to square ones to long vertical ones that appear in sidebars.
You, QA, need to test each individual version of the banner ad to make sure that each works as designed and that your production twiteams (there are twits in that team) didn’t copy over bad logic or hard-coded x and y coordinates for things that don’t make sense in a different ad size.
And of course I like stupid-funny sorts of slapstick humor. For Pete’s sake, it’s what working in QA provides every day.
