In the past, we only advertised on this forum in the section dedicated to buying/selling. The "featured" banner below the navigation menu is the first time that we have ever placed adverts on the forum as a whole.

The banner is told to only serve up products from the PICmicro categories, which eliminates the possibility of us advertising our own products, which everyone would agree isn't fair.

The adverts are not very intrusive, and as has been said, helps us to pay for the web-hosting, and staff time taken to maintain the forum, upgrade it, etc

Hopefully some people will also save some money by finding prices cheaper than RS/Farnell etc