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Good grief! :-(
Unless and until someone can tell me the error of my ways, I have vetoed the multiple ad units approach because:
--On some pages, both ad units would appear. On other pages, the first would appear, not the second. I believe I understand why that would be the case--content-rich pages would support more ads, content-poor pages fewer. Yet what I perceive to be content-rich pages showed just the first ad unit, not the second.
--Because (it being appropriate to my page layout) the first ad unit in the left sidebar was a 125x125 button, while the second ad unit in the right sidebar was a 120x600 skyscraper, on pages where the first ad unit showed but not the second, I gained one ad (the left sidebar button) and lost four ads (the right sidebar skyscraper), for a net loss of three ads. This is progress?
--There appears to be no way to give priority appearance to right-side ad units over left-side ad units (or to give priority to bottom-of-the-page ad units over top-of-the-page ad units, for that matter). If I could, I would force the appearance of the right-side four-ad skyscraper, and accept the occasional, random appearance of the left-side one-ad button.
--Although it is not optimal for my layout, I tried placing the second ad unit also in the right sidebar, below the first ad unit (with an affiliate icon-link between the two). Inexplicably, it was often the case that the advertiser and ad content of the button ad matched the last (fourth) advertiser and ad content of the skyscraper! Repeating identical ads on the same page, and in such close proximity, looked incredibly stupid!
From my perspective, this whole multiple ad unit idea simply makes no sense--at least for my sites. I would very much like to add a second ad unit to my left sidebars, but it doesn't seem doable, at least not in any way that makes (ad)sense.
Help!
So the right 120x600 would show up first
and the smaller one depending on enough adds
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That is, three 1x3 tables.
I want the 125x125 button ad to appear at b, and the 120x600 skyscraper to appear at s.
Without totally revamping my page design (not really an option), I don't see how I write HTML code that has the third section (right sidebar) of the second-row table appearing in the code *before* the first section (left sidebar) of that table.
Any clues as to how I might achieve this?
With the DIV, You can position elements completely independent from where they are on the page.
