and no popups, please. Text only ads sound interesting. Don't know how effective they will be for your advertisers. If you do go to banner ads, just limit the size and no flash/sound/java... in them. That really slows things down.
"The time has come to stop squeezing the Italian guy's pockets."
Squeezing the Italian guy's pockets? ;-\ Not a good analogy for a guy to use.