I appreciate your view tend to disagree with it. I have made sites in the past more contreversial looking like www.freecss.info, which is good for looking at but for this site I believe doing a "wow" factor design would not be beneficial. Since I am not really stressing the templates anymore I expect the bulk of the traffic to be from digging and search engines on tutorials and written content. Therefore I felt a simple design would be better for ad blending and simplicity and ease to read which is integral to a site if you are there to read. Please respond if you wish to disagree. I accept what you say though as the design would probably not bring that many return visitors or people who recognise the site immediately as being unique.

Having just said that I must say so far I have not reaped any benefits in terms of earning or raises in CTR