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    Posted: April 26 2009 at 02:09
I know ads are needed for the site, but as of now the artist pages looks cluttered with them - five full screens of ads before getting to the artist discography is a tad too much in my opinion.

Is it really necessary to have such a large amount - or present them in such a space-consuming manner?
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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 02:13
Actually , I am working on improving the search results for ebay and amazon to offer better offers to visitors when finding albums.

I am tweaking them AS NOW so it may look cluttered until I am finished,

stay tuned
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Points: 11401 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 02:18
Ah - saw an improvement right away now. Good that what it was like earlier today wasn't permanent; my scroll finger was getting cramps ;-)
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Points: 16913 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 11:07
Oh, ouch.  Please, tweak it down more.  Ads are needed, we understand.  Several screens worth of Amazon and Ebay listings prior to the actual band albums are really bad.  At least put them at the end of the page, after the artist's work (albums), rather than before.  
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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 11:16
I am tweaking them as now so it may look NOT FIXED on older browsers until I figure out how to size them correctly.

What is your browser Finnforst ?
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Points: 16913 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 11:23
Firefox, whatever version was available like 2-3 months ago I last downloaded
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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 11:24
In the mean time , i'd like to tell you guys that I put a lot of efforts in the recent days to develop these 2 new tool from AMAZON and EBAY to show the best results possible for visitors wishing to buy new prog rock music and now they have a good choice of OFFERS right here at PA...

Please comments this progressive fact also, not only the negative effects of changes....


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Points: 16913 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 11:31
Personally, I think it's enough to have any ads confined to a small clean box that is smaller that the actual band content.  But if there are to be larger showings of individual retail listings, fine, but I feel they should come after the content on the artist.  There should be an important and steadfast rule for any "art music"  site that the content/artist is of primary importance, the advertising second.  I think the bio and album listings should be first and uncluttered, with all of the other content and advertising below.  It's still there, it just establishes and acknowledges what is important and what is actually bringing new members to the site. 
 
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2009 at 11:46
While I agree it is important to have ads actually RELATED to the content of the site - and what is more related than practical info about where to get the actual music (which is often not very easy to find)? - I agree with the others on the fact that, as to now, they take up far too much space on album pages. There are people with slower connections, and having to scroll further and further down in order to get to the reviews can be quite frustrating. 
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