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Thursday, 01-Dec-2005 15:01:09 PST
Firstly allow me to explain. I am a retired person living in a retirement village on a quite modest pension. The costs of maintaining this site together with the costs of a telephone dialup service, including telephone charges are quite considerable.
From 1st January, 2002 I have had to double the site's bandwidth requirements simply because of the sheer volume of traffic. This has led to an increase of over 90% in site costs.
Some of this expense is supported by extremely modest commissions on book sales, however this does not lead to room for any improvement.
Continual need to upgrade computer hardware and software are totally beyond my personal resources. Ideally I would like more modern program development software to write quality programs to run under the newer platforms. This software would automate many processes which require labourious calculations for people computing filters as well as other electronics calculations. This is just one example.
Developing new projects involves significant costs in components and materials. For the present this is beyond me.
Further I would dearly love to be able to compensate other people who might care to contribute their time to write further tutorials and projects for you. At present all I am able to offer are gift certificates from Amazon charged against commissions on book sales.
This idea of voluntary donations has been suggested by quite a lot of people. I believe in time it will become a prominent feature of the internet as advertising revenues continue to disappear. I guess it will become a "practical" way to rate a site - have you received value for a few dollars?.
Since PayPal have accepted international members I am now in a position to offer you a choice of two methods:
METHOD 1: - Donate directly to my PayPal Account
Directly donate an amount of your own choosing to my now established PayPal account thereby allowing me to make software purchases, hardware upgrades etc.
METHOD 2: - Donate to helping pay site hosting at WebWizards
Directly donate toward the cost of maintaining this site at WebWizards.net.
Make a voluntary donation as described above. It is implemented here to once again donate the amount of your choice.
Use this method to donate any amount (US dollars) you care to choose. This amount is credited directly to my account with Web Wizards. Please let me know so both Rob and I can keep our records straight, I can properly thank you and; with your permission, include you in the acknowledgements page.
Another very sensible suggestion I have received was to allow pages to be sponsored by individuals or your employers. In return the appropriate sponsor banner appears at the top of the page for 3, 6 or 12 months. Talk to your employer. It has been suggested to me that general pages (not main pages) could attract $US 60.00 for three months. That would be very reasonable. - See my new sponsorship page
I'm always opens to suggestions.
Apart from that suggestion and for the moment there is very little you can do except perhaps consider purchasing from Amazon, a highly reputable organisation, something you feel you have intended to purchase, assuming it represents value.
Until I can complete facilities with PayPal to allow small donations to be made, it is quite impractical to make actual supportive donations. [Footnore: The PayPal feature has been remedied]. I appreciate your concern, generosity and willingness to help this site to continue to grow and be maintained. Please click on these banners to browse or search at your preferred Amazon location for your tastes in books, dvd's. music, videos or whatever.
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However I do sincerely thank you for taking the time to read this page. Care to make a comment or suggestion?
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