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Sponsorship 20-May-2003 At 9:30:16 AM Mike

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Chockstone has, up until now, been hosted free of charge by my employers, who have more or less turned a blind eye to the incredible 10 gig a month of out going traffic and near on 100,000 hits per month that this site generates. Unfortunately someone actually added up Chockstone's share of Telstra's bill, and seeing that it, these days, amounts to quite a bit, have put the pressure on me to get a sponsor or two, to at least cover in part this expense. The sort of money we are talking about is more than I'm willing to pay out of my own pocket.

I'm in the process of considering a couple of options. Naturally I would have liked the site to remain ad free indefinitely. I have no intension of including banner ads that pop up, flash, blink, animate, hog the screen or otherwise interrupt the viewing of site content. At present I'm thinking something subtle, a small, static linked image below the "about" button on the left hand menu, which opens to a single, more detailed page.