The final result looks nice, but I hate these exercises, because if you are not fitting the same number of ads in the page, then you are not actually solving th

The final result looks nice, but I hate these exercises, because if you are not fitting the same number of ads in the page, then you are not actually solving the same problem. You are solving a much easier problem, as almost all sites look better without ads. Also, there's a major divide between what people seem to think looks nice and what seems to succeed. The Huffington Post is the biggest example of recent success in the news realm. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Is that despite of its design or because of it? I don't know. It's hard to separate out the effect of the editorial content from presentation.