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About the revised site layout...
Authored by: alblue on Jul 29, '05 09:25:14AM

I think the layout works OK, but I would say that the animated ads are the bane of the web and are causing more people to use tools like AdBlock in Firefox. Crucial is the wors advertiser with their animated ads.

On the one hand, I want to support ad-enabled revenue from sites like this one; but the more animated adverts that show up, the more I want to block them. Not sure if you can do anything about it or not, but if you can, getting rid of animated adverts before your client base gets rid of *all* adverts is probably a sane strategy.



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About the revised site layout...
Authored by: shavenyak on Jul 29, '05 02:34:23PM

Crucial is the worst? I've seen Flash banners that randomly wiggle around like a scalded cat with Parkinson's disease. Yahoo used to have a Ford ad where a little Explorer drove right across the web page, obscuring the text. And who can forget the ads that are designed to look exactly like a Windows XP system alert popping up? Crucial's ads are downright tame in comparison.



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