Please put the ads back at the top of the page

[Flummery]

I think it scrunches up the bit we're here for. The titles of threads now often run onto 2 lines.

[Finedon.Dandy]

I feel like I am squinting to see

[allotmentlady]

DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHERE THEY ARE? We come one ere for a natter, gossip about veges........doesnt bother me at all.

[terrier]

Is it just my PC or are others having problems with the ads blotting out part of the post?

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ite_38103.html

[Paul Wagland]

I like the ads better at the side - they make the page less symmetrical.

I can't see what the difference is between ads on a website and ads in a magazine... it's a commercial opportunity and doesn't detract all that much from the 'useful' content.

You'd be surprised how little of the cover price of a paper mag is profit - almost all of that comes from advertising. The only thing that bothers me (as a consumer and a journalist) is the pressure on the editorial staff to include positive material in order to keep advertisers happy. Ie when an advertiser tells the ad sales staff that 'I'll spend £500 on an ad if your editor raves about my new gadget in their article about xyz'.

[Paul Wagland]

GYO don't do it much, by the way, but I know other mags that actively sell on that basis.

[allotmentlady]

thats shocking paul......but i do know thru a friend of mine that other mags do that, she works for one!

[piskieinboots]

...'I'll spend £500 on an ad if your editor raves about my new gadget in their article about xyz'.

t'weren't like that in my day, which was in the hot metal days! Oh how I loved the Thursday morning melt down smell

Seriously tho, it didn't happen in the papers I worked at (Cornish Guardian) nor the magazines when I moved over to commerical print - in those days (hark at 'er, pull up a sandbag!) Editorial word was FINAL

[Pumpkin Becki]

I like the ads better at the side - they make the page less symmetrical.

Aaaahhh!!! Symmetry is everything!!!! **runs off screaming**

[zazen999]

Oh dear Becki - it was only a matter of time.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Oh dear Becki - it was only a matter of time.

I'm still jibbering in a corner Zazen

[zazen999]

I'm still jibbering in a corner Zazen

and I thought I was bad........can you move your chair 3 inches to the left?

[Pumpkin Becki]

....can you move your chair 3 inches to the left?

yes of course, how did I let that happen

[rustylady]

I've just gone to my pm inbox and realised that the b***** ads cover up the right hand side of my messages too. Not happy

[RedThorn]

changed my mind put them at the top... when I clicked on a picture to open it, I ended up with 1 (yup only one of them) staying on top of the pic, obscuring the picutre ...grumble grumble