It will make a pleasant change, I totally agree. Those animated gifs and flashing banners are distracting, as well as annoying. I mean you're trying to read something and there's a monkey (or whatever) jumping around in the right hand column. I sometimes used to cover that column with a piece of lightweight cardboard when it got really bad. Dont have to do that now. Yay.
So thanks for your comment, @writehappy.
Gary