*lightbulb* is always on :P

It’s the sites that have those stupid talking ads and things that pop up all over your screen that suck, and those ads that come flying in to say “Congrats your our 10,000 visitor”

4 google ad units is allowed per page anyways so complain to Google :P

ill have to agree with jay on the whole menu thing, i can honestly say i never noticed it. disguising your menu in all those ads is not a new trick, and, whether intentionally or not, it backfired here. alot of people disguise ads in thier content to trick people into clicking them as they blend into the menu, but here you have done the complete opposite and blended your menu into the ads!

anyways, good luck with the site in the future, ill check back soon!

I’ll go back to my old design for now until I improve the other custom one.

I think the main difference between that site you have pointed out, and your site is that you can actually read the content they are trying to get accross.

For example it took me a long while to see you actually had a menu since you’ve deguised the top 4-5 google ad links into your menu… so I simply presumed it was full of links and ignored it.

I’m always open to suggestions and I’m going to take this as constructive criticism.

Photoshoptips.net has the same amount of ads as … for example: http://design.weblogsinc.com/

The difference, I believe, is that I over-emphasized the advertisements. I’ll try to make them less gaudy

I dont think swamping your site with ads is the best way to pay the bills, having a successful site with fewer ads would do the otrick… but im not sure that site will ever get to the point where they can do that with the amount of ads thrown in there!