What about "focus"? User's
focus when the look at the
screen; my focus when
I have to work on all the issues
in the startup and, then, in
addition the ads and, thus, lose
my focus; something else?
For user experience, with
my Web pages, the ads are fairly
easy to ignore. The pages are dirt
simple with essentially no JavaScript --
so that pages don't jump around.
And all the layout is just via
tables so that I know to the last
pixel where everything is.
The content the user wants
is on the left, and some ads
300 x 250 pixels are on the right.
Simple.
So, I'm guessing that the
ads will not be very distracting, e.g.,
won't hurt the ability of the
users to focus on the content,
i.e., won't yield a poor user
experience.