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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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Well after paying a moderate amount to have photos edited and my website renovated I got nothing.

So while talking to or really complaining to Paul Sage he did my photos within no time at all while we were on the phone, (I have dial up) so I get back online and did a total redo on my site.

A lot of pages are still missing information:
Available (nothing for sale yet)
Breeders (Still need to get good pics)
Help Section (The entire page has to be completed but the topics are there)

So I just want to know, with all the work I am putting in and that taking time from my children and my little bitty sleep cycle if there is anything you think needs to be addressed before I do the rest of the work.....

Be honest, you cannot hurt my feelings, well you can lol but not about my site, I want it to be:

Easy to read
Easy to understand
Easy to Navigate
And Informative

and so so much more....
 
I will happily give my honest opinion, and try not to be too harsh. :)

- Not digging the green, it's too bright. If you want the green, I would shoot for the dark green seen in the Quick Reply bar here on Fauna.

- The counter looks pretty unprofessional (specifically with the advertisment beneath) and doesn't go match the rest of your design. I use http://www.statcounter.com for my counters.

- The BOI cert looks out of place and really doesn't need to be on every page

- The typography (text) on the Terms & Help pages is very distracting. It seems simply thrown onto the page and doesn't have any unity or order (see www.triplemoonsexotic.com/terms.html for a good example of typography for your terms page)

- The yellow on the Links page made me wince, I would stick with one color throughout your pages

I think that about covers out. Love the font by the way (I'm a font junky)! :)
 
Thanks Steph, I didn't really like the green either but my 6 year old demanded that color lol

The counter matched my old site better, Ive had it so long Id hate to loose all my stats but I think I can change the looks of it.

The GGC is really only there on each page because if I take it off it makes the other pages look lop sided and I have to recenter each page then.

Ill look at my terms page, my vision is not so great so I can't really read yours that well but I can see how you organized them better.

The links page is no longer there, I left that link on a few pages by mistake. I actually added them to the help section to cut down on pages.

Thanks for the tips!
 
Thanks Steph, I didn't really like the green either but my 6 year old demanded that color lol
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Think maybe you could sneak a slightly darker one in on him/her? ;)

The counter matched my old site better, Ive had it so long Id hate to loose all my stats but I think I can change the looks of it.
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You don't have to worry about loseing stats with StarCounter. You can set it to whatever your current stat is and go from there. I don't know how well your current counter is with monitoring stats, but StarCounter gives these really neat graphs and charts on how many hits you have including returning and new IPs.

Ill look at my terms page, my vision is not so great so I can't really read yours that well but I can see how you organized them better.
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What is your screen resolution set at? That's always the bugger about doing web design...People can have completely different color and size settings that make a website not look so great.
 
Im used to the green now and at least its different than most sites so Im just going to leave that.

I looked at your counter, its invisable and I want it viewable on my site so Im going to play around with their options when I get a chance.

My screen is set at the standard 1024X768.

I just have a hard time reading white on black anything, I have an astigmatism on both eyes but its werid, one corrected does fine the other is a weird amount of correction and its either over or under corrected so I have a hard time reading light colors on dark colors.
 
I looked at your counter, its invisable and I want it viewable on my site so Im going to play around with their options when I get a chance.
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Yes, the only two websites I have my counter visible on is triplemoonsexotic.com and triplemoonsdesign.com. TME has the counter only visible on the home page, while TMD has the counter visible on every page. It can be set to be invisible on ALL pages, set to be only visible on select pages, or set to be visibile on ALL pages.
 
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