Name a single high-profile website: slashdot.org, digg.com, newsvine.com, others any of these that doesn't waste the top 300px+ of their site with ads or other stuff. You simply won't find it.
is quite inane. It incorrectly assumes that /sites which intend to make money by capturing eyeballs/ will /use the default theme of Drupal/. This is almost never the case, not for any site that plans to actually succeed (I challenge you to find a bluemarine site that has ads and has been heard of by, oh, I dunno, more than two people).
And, because I felt bad for answering your challenge with one of my own, I'll respond. These are sites whose headers: * do more than one thing * are not filled with ads. * are not ignorable. http://www.amazon.com/ http://www.ebay.com/ http://www.ibm.com/ http://www.apple.com/ None of these sites have ads in their header space. Most of them do it well within the 300px height you claim as non-worrisome. With the exception of IBM and Apple, I submit that all are more popular than the ones you've listed. However, I think this is a bad direction to be heading in. We will /always/ find a site that agrees with our argument whilst disproving the other one. I'm quite sure that's not a road we want to go down. -- Morbus Iff ( sleep breeds sanity ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus