Patrick - Yeah it will work with removing that style information.  Sometimes it does cause some issues, but most of the time it doesn't.  It's also nice to have that area 'shrink' when there's no ads.  I haven't tried to do this on Blox yet, but I need to (soooooooo confused on where to start...but I was one of the developers of newsys so it's kind of natural to me!)

Christian

Mike, 

That code looks a bit different than what I'm using for DoubleClick, so I'm not going to be of much help.  For what it's worth the code we use looks like this:

<div id='div-gpt-ad-1382647690928-1' style='width:120px; height:90px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1382647690928-1'); });
</script>
</div>

Christian

Mike, 

By default DoubleClick ads have a <div> with a width and height associated to them.  Have you tried taking out the width and height and seeing if that works?  It's caused me some issues, but I'm redesign on newsys! :)

Patrick, 

DoubleClick for Small Business does this and I think it might be what April is looking for.  It's really hard on Adsys (or whatever it's called now days) to be able to tell if you have impressions available to sell unless you keep this gigantic spreadsheet.  

So on DoubleClick you can do a "Check Inventory" and input position type (300x250) what section (front, news etc) and run dates and see how many impressions are available.  Additionally it will show you what ads are running during that time.  The end result would say "there are 100,000 impressions available out of 200,000 impressions"

Christian

I suppose for the St. Louis Dispatch they may have to pay for DFP, but DFP is free for small business's (up to I want to say 10 million impressions a month or something like that; or maybe we got in under a trial run, but it is free to us; tried to find info out about that, but can't seem to dig it up now).  Just need to have an adsense account.  

Well the two pieces to DFP are header JS pieces and the actual ad tag. So in reality if you have a header editable area and ad region can be replaced with a text or something that would work. 

I'll be the first to admit I don't know a whole lot about Blox, so bear with me.  

Christine,

I'm doing okay...trying to stay warm right now.  Negative 13 when I left the house this morning (not including wind chill!)!

Could you not add a switch somewhere as to which ad software stuff you'd like to use? If the DFP switch was on there'd be a 'blox' module for putting in the header information (for ease of use have that information on all pages...so even if the ad was only for news the head JS would have ALL DFP code for all pages). Then you could just paste the code into an ad module as if we were setting up an add (so a JS ad).  Maybe you just create another type of ad module and you'd put header and ad information into that module.  Just some thoughts off of the top of my head.