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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.

Stop People from Stealing your pics!!!

H

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Anyone who has a webpage knows how easy it is for anyone who comes along to steal the pictures you have posted.

THese are YOUR pictures!

Of YOUR animals!

I have a script that i use on my eBay ads as well as my website to keep the pictures posted there from being right clicked on and copied. If you have a program that you yourself design your own pages on, just ad this to your page script and the right click option cannot be used.

Check out the script in action by going to www.herpkingdom.com. The only page you cannot right click on is the Corn snake page. All other do not have the script in place. YET!

If you have a webdesigner doing your design for you, send it to him and have him put it in. Although any good designer would have incorporated it there in the first place.

I cannot post the script as it will not allow you to right click to copy it. I do have it in a note pad text file that I can e-mail to you.This is offered free to everyone as a response to the ad below.
I am not someone who passes along viruses, this is a legitamate offer. Just trying to help my fellow herpers!

I am however trying to attach the file to this post. If it works you have the script, if it doesn't just email me for it.
 
THe download link worked!!

My goodness I think they have this site worked out!!

Great job!!
 
Hate to burst your bubble but everytime you request a page the HTML and the images are downloaded to your computer (in the Temp Internet Files folder on a PC). You can just go into this folder and save the image where ever your want. Or go to File --> Save As and save the webpage (this also pulls all the images off). All disabling the right mouse button does is annoy those of us that use it to mark our favorites, print pages or go "back".
<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>
 
A lot of people don't have the program to put thier names on their pics or don't know how to do it.
I use Adobe Photo shop for this.
Most printers come with some type of photo program that allow you to alter picture, so check out those CD Roms!

Jim
 
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