Added some articles to the Pressbook. (Don’t forget you can subscribe for mail and Twitter updates for both the Pressbook and the Newswire. Just visit those sections and look for the links on the right-hand side.)

Many thanks for those who dug deep and sent in donations. See who they were here. Each and every dollar is greatly appreciated!

The July Photo is ready you to add some captions. Extra points for extra funny.

Spruce up your space with the July desktop calendars. The square version works well on standard monitors. The oblong one is better suited for Apple displays on newer iMacs and powerbooks as well as cinema displays. Just save and install as you would any wallpaper. The calendars are available for a limited time so get them early! Enjoy.

Square Version
Oblong Version

There’s still a week to make the goal so I’m optimistic. But I do understand in these tough economic times donating to a website, no matter how much you enjoy or visit it, might be low on the priority list.

What will happen if we fall short of the goal this year? Well, on the surface not a lot that you might notice. The site will probably go to semi-annual payments so that it will be two smaller chunks. This ultimately increases the amount to be paid, but it makes the payments easier to cover. Some other behind the scenes items might fall by the wayside as well. I get a volume of email daily which I try to answer within 24 hours. That schedule may change to a once weekly email answering so my resources can be focused elsewhere, and fewer of the emails may get answered.

For the next fundraiser, should it also fall short, I might put some areas of the site as subscription-based. Sections like the fan fiction and the fan art get a lot of traffic and those would be the areas that would become subscriber-based. Maybe 3 to 5 bucks a year. A small amount but if all the regular visitors would subscribe, it would take up the slack from donations. The upside to making these areas subscriber-based would be that more content would be added there on a regular basis.

We shall see what the next week, and the next year bring. Hopefully the economy will pick up!

To see the current donor list, look here. Whether it be $2 or $100, all donations are well appreciated.

Added some things to the Members’ Area.

And the fundraiser is still languishing at $20 from goal. Twenty people donating a dollar. Or 10 people donating $2. Or one generous person with $20 to spare. That’s all it takes to shut off the reminders for another year.

To read about why this funraiser happens every year, visit the blog.

To see the current donor list, look here. Whether it be $2 or $100, all donations are acknowledged and greatly appreciated.