When did the advertisements become the focus of this site?

[themonarch]

I love this site, and I just started working on updating my website. My trip back to Flashkit.com is not disappointing, just confusing with all the freakin advertisements. Please do a better job of not having the adverts get in the way of the flow of the site.

[Bapha]

Good point! The ads are getting obtrusive.

[MrBaseball34]

Especially that oversized Photos.com one. Man, this is getting ridiculous.

What happened to 400x85 banners? Now its a 360x330 piece of junk that
screws up the layout.

At first I thought it was one of those closeable DIV adds. Boy was I wrong...

Wish they'd at least get rid of those oversized ads.

[Planet]

We all know that this is a touchy subject but try to look at it this way, the ads keep us in business. No ads, no Flashkit.com

There are only 2 ads on the top of the forums home page. One scroll with the mouse and their out of the way

[MrBaseball34]

Sure, we all understand the need for revenue to keep the site going.
But do they *HAVE* to be so HUGE and OBTRUSIVE?

That photos.com one is the one that is the most obtrusive ad I've ever
seen outside those stupid floating DIVs.

Can't you get them to give you a smaller one?

[MrBaseball34]

And now you have another HUGE one from Cloudscape. This is getting
ridiculous...

[Planet]

Bad response...

What would be a good response?

[Bapha]

Originally posted by Planet
What would be a good response?

Heres my nice response:

In Firefox, right mouse click and 'block images from flashkit.com'.

Sweet! no more obtrusive ads - and the site looks pretty much the same

[MrBaseball34]

In Firefox, right mouse click and 'block images from flashkit.com'.

SWEET!!!!

What would be a good response?

Get rid of the 360X330 ads and replace them with smaller ones.
I saw one for VS.NET and it had the exact same ad in a different
size at the top of the page, too.

[FlashKid105]

I blocked all images from Flash Kit but now, I cannot use smilies.