I agree with you regarding the pop-ups. I'm webmastering quite a while now though and became familiar with the ads agencies available regarding websites. The whole market collapsed the last couple of years and the only thing making money is ... pop-ups. It's a simple choice ... a website with pop-ups or no website at all. Both BSN as WOB faced problems regarding bandwidth costs. Even pop-ups couldn't save WOB anymore, it just grew to large (both in contents as in visitors). I feel it is possible to run a good and decent website with high quality contents ... it will require pop-ups though and contents should be more efficient (video in other formats, pictures in smaller sizes). Free webspace is not the way to host a site, donations from visitors isn't either. The last resource available would be online merchandising but face it, Britney's fans are app. 10-17 years old, not able to spend a lot of money on posters, cd's, t-shirts, etc.
Life for a webmaster is not as easy as some people think, unfortunately.
Neftha
VirtualBritney.net
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