Until the next redesign, I don’t anticipate anything like the above, mainly because I’m not sure the outlay would be worth it to advertisers.

It’s purely non-compete penetration style advertising, much like Slashdot.

I’ll redownload FireFox and see what the ads are doing to the internal pages. Obviously any skewing isn’t what I’m looking for and will result in the ads being removed.

What’s my definition of a commercial site? A site which exists to make money.

Ensight, to me, doesn’t. It exists to blog, and makes money as a total side thing. If it didn’t make money, it’d still exist and I’d still be blogging here.

A commercial blog, though, would only exist as long as there was revenue and value.

That’s the difference to me.

Oh, and any RSS ads would be PURELY text. Therefore no extra download time. Maximum of 10 words type of thing.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000946.php

In my opinion, if you are going to do it, do it that way, not just the non-competing ads. Not exactly sure how easy it would be to alter your design but the income possibilities would be higher doing that than any type of ad slot and potentially less irritating to the user.

The RSS feed ads, if it does anything to slow down the download of the feed, don’t do it.

I’m using Firefox 1.0 and comment page is skewd and it is causing part of the ad to be unreadable (along with your post). The burgundy and gray lines on the right hand side are insinde your tan post area. When I view the site in IE the lines are not there at all. Anyway, if you are going to have ads on this page you really need to fix that.

Just out of curiousity what is your definition of a commercial site? I have no problem with commercial sites but to me commercial means “for profit” not necessarily eCommerce. Ensight has, in my opinion, become commercial (for profit). Again, I have no problem with that but I wondered what your definition of commercial was.