Following in the footsteps of the pioneering website, Million Dollar Homepage, World of Pixels, has launched its own version of a pixel-advertising website.

The World of Pixels homepage is divided into a grid 1000 pixels wide by 1000 pixels high, making a grand total of 1 million pixels.  The grid is sub-divided into small 100 pixel squares or blocks, each measuring 10 pixels wide x 10 pixels high.

Advertisers can buy one or more blocks as advertising space, which entitles them to add their own image-ad, backed up by a slogan that is visible when the mouse passes over the image, plus a direct link back to their own website.  The image-ad must be exactly the same size as the block space ordered.  Thus buying a single block only entitles the advertiser to a 10 x 10 pixel advert, whilst purchasing 10 blocks wide by 2 blocks high entitles the advertiser to a more substantial image-ad measuring 100 pixels wide by 20 pixels high.

In addition to the image-ad and website link on the home page, advertisers get a free listing in the World of Pixels Business Directory.  This includes an option for advertisers to display their own logo as well as a 400-character summary of their business or, if they prefer, a sales or marketing message.

Advertisers can order their pixel-ad space directly from the World of Pixels website - www.world-of-pixels.com - at a cost of $1 per pixel or $100 for a 10x10 pixel block.

As a special Christmas bonus, World of Pixels have reduced the price of their pixel-ads by a massive 40%.

Down from $1 per pixel to only 60 cents!

Thus a single 10x10 pixel block now only costs $60 instead of the previous $100.

As the pixel-ad lasts for the lifetime of the site......about 5 years......this is a bargain price.

Don't miss out, order your pixel-ad now before the prices return to normal.

Almost 35 million people in the UK now have access to the internet according to recent figures.

That's a massive 58% of the entire British population of 60 million, giving the UK the highest online population in Europe and almost on a par with the US in terms of population share. Germany is second with 32 million online users, but this only represents 38% of their larger population of 83 million.

The United States continues to have the highest online population of 166 million, just pipping the UK with its population share of 59%. Next is Japan with 56 million users (44%) and China - 46 million (3.5%).