Firstly Web sites can be expensive, our caving club one eats a big piece of our budget, even if you host from home you need to support the hard ware and pay for a decent net connection, or if you host it offsite you need to pay a server company which for a web site of this size i could imagine wouldnt be cheap either as you would probably also have to pay for PHP extensions or compliance.
If Bubba offered a link to amazon as an option which people could use or ignor then do there own search for the book then it would help to offset costs every time someone did use the link to save time, sometime money, mostly effort.
I agree yes amazon is probably bad but then if you shop in waterstones what about the second hand book next door, if you shop in the second hand book store next door what about the charity shop around the corner, if you shop in the charity shop what about your cup off coffee in waterstones that helps to supports fair trade. Its a vicouse circle and who is worse than who?
The amount of hits this web site generates would ensure that even a small advertisement would ensure that the page pays for itself rather than it comeing out someones pocket. Just as an example one of the websites I maintain has a lot of content and is constantly growing and recieves a relativly large number of hits, probably not as many as this one though, and that costs £40+ a year to host off site and this was the cheapest I could find after extensive searching and they give me a 20% discount as the contnet is charity based.
Any how thats my views and well done Bubba for keeping the forum looking great, free and secure... :bow: must take a large amount of work at times.
