Submitter’s comments: Check it out. I think it’s way too busy.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Well, a lot of the problems are caused by the number and position of the ads. There is nothing wrong with ads, God love ‘em, but when there are so many and you can’t differentiate them from the rest of the page, you have a problem. Where’s the focal point of the page?

Pretty much everything on the site was created in Flash and that will be a problem for Firefox users with the NoScripts plugin or who have Javascript turned off. This is all you’ll see. It’s pretty scary and it makes the site pretty useless.

As this screenshot demonstrates, the site’s use of Flash, coupled with a lack of actual text, hurts this site in the area of Search Engine Optimization. There are only 43 words on the home page. I’ve got over 2,000 on mine.

Confusingly, the Pause button on the first Flash animation, doesn’t pause the video. It pauses the music, which is counterintuitive.

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