Is this Adsense format allowed- Where can I find it ?

It is actually done in CSS, by creating an "ads class" and simply specify the ad dimensions, colors, and other customizations.

Though that ad looks like a standard block.

Anyone can explain it in detail?

Thank you.

Eric, I dont fully understand what you've written but thats only becasue I havent entirely grasped css. I do know how to modify the source code to get the look I want so I could figure out how to get my ads to look like this.

Is this adsense legal though...since Google didnt directly provide this look?

From your account go to adsense setup> adsense for content> and
then by format there is a drop down menu with different sizes and
shapes. This one is pretty close to the largest in the "square" section
but there is also the wizard (above format) that lets you customize
your ads. I haven't used that but I suppose that must be where they
changed the format size, and maybe the font size for the links.

You are right the links do use larger lettering than I've seen and that
could help click through rates. The css for the position is just "float
left."

Eric's comment is news to me. I didn't know you could use css on
adsense but what he is saying is similar to my .box class (see simple
sig site) in the navigation and with css you can specify anything you
want in the box, font size, color, box size etc. I had assumed that
since the adsense is from javascript the css wouldn't influence it, but
the standard ads work well enough for me now that I'm not going to
check that out in detail right now.

And the most important thing is to have fun with all that.

best wishes, lloyd

I imagine that the look is fine for the google ads.

What CSS does is define a look from other code which can be found on the same page or called from a different document that resides on the server. This code is called a class since the code can be used more than once on each document. If you were to change the class, everything using the class would be changed.

You will need to search the code to find the call. Google is still providing the ads.

haha, slick blending of ads there.

elitesalesgroup,
the site which you mentioned wisegeek.com is a premium adsense publisher and therefor they have options for
flexible ad formats....

@ Eric Lorence ... they have not done it through CSS

please donot modify the google adsense format using CSS as its against adsense T&C to tamper with their ads format
and can result in cancellation of your adsense account.

When you have 20 million page views per month, or 5 million searches (and some of these requirements are lowered for other languages and countries) you qualify for the Premium Publisher program from Google AdSense.

Some sites where you can see the Premium ads in action are wisegeek.com/ cnn.com / about.com


Tx
Ani

LOL, now I am really confused. I know adsense doesn't allow you to change the code in any way but CSS isn't really changing the code, its just applying a style sheet , right?

I guess I better leave it alone. The last thing I want is for my account to be cancelled.

Thank you to everyone who weighed in on this discussion.