Ron Earp
Admin
Well, as you can probably tell we’ve got advertising banners up and running. From the few comments I’ve received it appears that folks don’t think they are obtrusive and that is a good thing. It will not slow your connection up at all either – they are all under 25k and once cached in your browser they don’t get loaded again from the server. By contrast pictures are around 100k and text for a long thread is well over 75k. Therefore, it should not affect your loading speed.
So far we have a few advertisers:
http://www.race-car-replicas.com/ - Our own Fran Hall’s creations
http://www.roaringforties.com.au/ - Robert Logan’s GT40s
www.verycoolparts.com – Nice injection systems and other bits
http://www.keithcraft.com/ - Engines, and good ones too
http://www.aclift.com/ - Garage lifts, nice stuff
www.vintagewheelsus.com – Nice wheels for your 40
I know that Brad Davies at American Custom Lifts indicates he will give a discount for forum members if you mention that you saw the ad on www.gt40s.com. I think some of the others might too, so if you are in need of some of these products then please give them a call. We’ve got some more coming on board too that are offering products that fit our needs and I am pushing them to offer discounted services to our community.
The revenue for the adverts will clearly be used for the forum to pay for time, server services, and software. It took quite a bit of work to get the advertising engine running, but it appears to be doing its job without causing any problems with other services like picture hosting etc. The only “negative” thing is that there is a banner forum located at the bottom that is closed to everyone but admins and it is visible, sort of an eye sore.
Hope that this isn’t as bad as some people thought it might be, and better than what some envisioned.
Best,
Ron
So far we have a few advertisers:
http://www.race-car-replicas.com/ - Our own Fran Hall’s creations
http://www.roaringforties.com.au/ - Robert Logan’s GT40s
www.verycoolparts.com – Nice injection systems and other bits
http://www.keithcraft.com/ - Engines, and good ones too
http://www.aclift.com/ - Garage lifts, nice stuff
www.vintagewheelsus.com – Nice wheels for your 40
I know that Brad Davies at American Custom Lifts indicates he will give a discount for forum members if you mention that you saw the ad on www.gt40s.com. I think some of the others might too, so if you are in need of some of these products then please give them a call. We’ve got some more coming on board too that are offering products that fit our needs and I am pushing them to offer discounted services to our community.
The revenue for the adverts will clearly be used for the forum to pay for time, server services, and software. It took quite a bit of work to get the advertising engine running, but it appears to be doing its job without causing any problems with other services like picture hosting etc. The only “negative” thing is that there is a banner forum located at the bottom that is closed to everyone but admins and it is visible, sort of an eye sore.
Hope that this isn’t as bad as some people thought it might be, and better than what some envisioned.
Best,
Ron
