| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
RAVALON 
Groupie
Joined: 31 December 2003
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 132
|
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote  Reply
 Posted: 03 November 2005 at 5:30pm |
|
How can pay an italian without credit card or Paypal ?
|
 |
Trefenwyd
Newbie
Joined: 14 April 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 7
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 04 November 2005 at 7:03am |
|
i understand and respect the choiche of borg to add the google ad, but i sincerely dont like it.
Just my 2 cents...
|
|
WebWiz-Bruce
Admin Group
Web Wiz Developer
Joined: 03 September 2001
Location: Bournemouth
Status: Offline
Points: 9844
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 05 November 2005 at 8:24am |
|
No one likes ads, but free things have to be paid for somehow and advertising is the only way.
Free TV and radio channels have advertising, and much free software
also carries advertising, including now allot of forum software.
If you don't like adverts on your TV channels you can subscribe to ad
free subscription channels, the same is true of software, if you don't
like the ads you can pay to have the ads removed.
Unless the world suddenly changes and everything becomes free, we all need to have money to live.
Writing the software that you get from this site and supporting it, via
this forum and email is a full-time job taking around 40 + hours a
week. Even Saturday and Sunday's most weeks I am in the office
anwsering emails and writting code.
Of course at present this site doesn't make enough money to live on so
I am also do other part-time work as well, everything from sound
engineering, to unloading containers. This then means I have less time
to work on new software, which in turn means delays in new versions
like Web Wiz Forums version 8.
The ads are just another way to find away to justify having the free
version, it's either that or remove the free version altogether and
only have paid versions.
The Google ads do need to be looked at, and I may remove the Google ads
to have a small ad section at the footer with ads comming from this
site. Whether people would pay Web Wiz Guide to have advertise within
the Web Wiz Forums software is another matter.
To determine if people would be interested in running ads in the Web
Wiz Forums software (free version) then please contact me by PM.
|
|
|
|
Imperator
Newbie
Joined: 02 October 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 39
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 05 November 2005 at 1:01pm |
|
It isn't straightforward and sometimes you need to take a step back to
take two steps forward. Ads can be good at the short run, but not
always in the long run if you can't sustain the usage quantity. For
example, phpBB is a free program that has grown to be huge in
usage. They have 300 users at a given time at their support
forums, which is good for ads on should they chose to do so. If you
bring ads in, you'll lose some customers. If I were you I'd recruit
more developers. (just a thought...)
|
|
y2cRAck4
Groupie
Joined: 21 August 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 116
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 November 2005 at 3:39pm |
google told that if somebody will put GoogleAds in his site in hebrew they'll give his account ban forever.
so what does the hebrew forums have to do ??
Edited by y2cRAck4 - 08 November 2005 at 8:23am
|
|
|
|
JCH2
Groupie
Joined: 04 February 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 129
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 07 November 2005 at 10:09am |
|
Interesting. Yes, there are actually hosts inside the USA which don't allow streaming ads at all, or only ones that use come from the host. I'm not sure it would really be a significant number of users who would face this problem. So borg, have you thought about a time limited version of the forum sans banner ads as an optional download? I know, I know, the last thing you need is more work. It's just a thought.
|
|
Yeormom
Newbie
Joined: 24 February 2006
Status: Offline
Points: 3
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 24 February 2006 at 2:28pm |
|
So, what happened with the Ads? Are they still in existance or idea dropped?
|
|
WebWiz-Bruce
Admin Group
Web Wiz Developer
Joined: 03 September 2001
Location: Bournemouth
Status: Offline
Points: 9844
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 24 February 2006 at 2:32pm |
|
|
|
|
|
