Blue Tongue Lizard Blue-tongue Skink. Blue tongue lizards come in a variety of sizes and colours but they all have distinctive blue tongues. Their blue tongue is a defensive mechanism. When the lizard is threatened it sticks out its large blue tongue and hisses loudly to scare off predators.
A skyscraper ad is a tall and narrow banner advertisement usually placed to the right of content on a Web page. Standard dimensions for a skyscraper ad are 160 X 600 pixels. Like another popular type of Internet ad, the leaderboard, the skyscraper offers an advertiser a large space for a message.
Also referred to as a banner ad, a banner is a typically rectangular advertisement placed on a Web site either above, below or on the sides of the Web site's main content and is linked to the advertiser's own Web site. In the early days of the Internet, banners were ads with text and graphic images. Today, with technologies such as Flash, banners have gotten much more complex and can be ads with text, animated graphics and sound. Most commerce-related Web sites use banner ads. See interstitial, hyperstitial and SUPERSTITIAL.