Aeonity's News & Development Blog

Posted by frost on April 09th, 2009

Thanks for that Eadwine!

Posted by loverearth on April 15th, 2009

I would like to donate but prefer to avoid Paypal. I'll look for an address or phone number by which to contribute. Thanks for your service. I hope you can avoid ads but if not is there a way to have ads that support decent causes?

Posted by anonymous on May 14th, 2009

i am a son of jesus i am belong in a very poor faimly in multan pakistan so i am also student of 2nd year so i have no money to pay my fee and my expanse so please help in my trouble i will pray for you so i hope you dont ignore me

Posted by 83na on June 14th, 2009

Donated :-)

It's not much but hey, I'm a student.

Posted by david on June 14th, 2009

Thank you 83na, anything helps!

Posted by yellowboy on June 14th, 2009

If the occasion arrives that you must include advertising, which will possibly happen, the best courses of action, according to many upcoming sites' experiences, involve avoiding certain types of advertising.

Embedded or traditional Pop-ups, whiteboxes, and "click the continue button to view the site" systems are the WORST way to have advertising. They interrupt the viewer's experience too harshly, and they offer nothing but browser problems.

T35 decided to be as minimalistic as possible by offering a bottom-of-screen text link row for their sites, along with Excoboard using a combination of that and picture banners being acceptable, as long as the pictures aren't any of those annoying dating site pictures with "exploitation-suggestive" images in there. Everyone hates them and the services the site provide. T35 also checks to make sure their advertisers are legit and lacking viruses or unacceptable content.

I'll note, however, that Excoboard uses Google Ads, and truthfully, there is no control with that system save for establishing what "kind" of ads appear on the site, text or pictures. I'll add that "vertical" advertising columns is also a bad idea, for obvious reasons.

You guys are trucking along nicely. I'll see if I can donate anything here, too. Your control panel's template modifier is very comfortable. I would suggest that you add comment tags to where sections of a blog would start for newbies, along with a reference to HTML tutorial websites, or even possibly an optional WYSIWYG editor.

Posted by daisepoe on June 22nd, 2009

You helped me get pears in my town! That is totally worth a donation! Thanks!!

Posted by astronaut on August 04th, 2009

Oh no! One of the main reasons I use Aeonity is because there are no ads. Livejournal now has ads. I don't think bBlogspot has ads, so if Aeonity did, I think many users would go to Blogspot.

I hope this doesn't happen! I know most ad-free sites are starting to add ads, and make users pay monthly to remove those ads. Why doesn't anybody do the opposite - where certain features aren't available unless a user chooses to show ads on their page (kind of like an option I guess).

I don't know.. just an idea.
I'll donate though. I hope you think of something!

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