View Poll Results: Are You Bothered By The Banners?

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  • Not Sure / Dont Mind

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  • Na doesn't bother me

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    Smoke Me A Kipper! Slick's Avatar
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    Banners!

    Is it just me or is that custom pc banner new?

    Is this all part of the new hexus? Personally I think it's a bit distracting and messes with the layout but I'll probs get used to it.

    So what does everyone else think?

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    doesnt bother me, i didnt notice it until you mentioned it

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    Don't like it personally.. it's quite intrusive unlike the existing Crucial Banner.... but.... someone's gotta pay for the bandwidth havent they

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    can make it less irritating, turn gif animation off
    cant remember but i think one of the many browsers that exists has an option to disable gifs comleatly = no banners
    banners is all gifs are use for anyway...

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    gifs are more widely used in web design graphics than jpegs due to their ablity to have an alpha or transparency settings. jpegs are only really used for photographic image

    so any option to turn off gifs would be useless unless a site had a text only option

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    Doesn't bother me as its one of the reasons I'm able to be viewing the page

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    We gotta pay the bills folks

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    I think they should make a new banner with the same colour scheme as the rest of the page and then place it between the hexus image and the crucial banner so it doesn't take up space.

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    Originally posted by Rys
    We gotta pay the bills folks

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    but you should be washing dishes to pay them rather than forcing us to be subjected to animated banner ads !!!

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    its quite irrative but i'll get used to it

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    Its not that bad tbh

    they gotta pay bills and there could be worse banners than that

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    How about this? We charge you to view the forums?

    I am serious, this is a one month banner ad with Dennis Publishing - the forums are a free service and they need to be paid for.

    (Please dont all email me offering to host them on your '£15' per year hosting accounts, because we know what happens).

    The point in banners is to promote companies and products - CustomPC is a new mag (and a good one!) So why not do the forums a favour and go check out the portal.

    I am very dissapointed to see such a thread on these forums.

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    What David means is.......

    "We haven't repainted your Living Room"

    What we have done is pay for Our living room to be open for you to come in and have a laugh with each other. We happen to have done it with a big poster......

    And as its our living room.....please just dont keep throwing bits of chewed up paper at it

    I'm sorry if it clashes with your 60's style shirt though....but David has some very bad 80's shirts you could borrow for amonth

    Please.....its cool.....

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