How not to advertise on the web

I dug this old post up from a blogspot blog that I have and never use anymore. This was from circa 2004, but still holds true. I can't tell you how annoying it is to have advertisements that play any kind of sound when the page loads. These are usually flash advertisements. This is very rude, this is like talking to someone while they are trying to read the newspaper. This gets even worse when the noise coming from the advertisement is some voice over speaking. Please, I did not come to the page to view all the …more