Well, 80 cookies baked(and frozen) and not one single web page coded, I am even more bushed. Sadly one thing that I was really hopeful for, that a guy in Winnipeg with a great image of the Winnipeg skyline that I had wanted to use for the Winnipeg Weblogs page would let me use his image emailed me back and told me basically that he couldn't do it for he would make no money.
I guess the fact I was doing a community site, not a for profit site had absolutely no impact. He says that "Typical usage rights for a home page usage are $500 and for inside editorial about $250 to $400 / each depending on the image size." I have not, nor do I plan to email him back, not even out of courtesy. I have limits on how much I will pay, even for such a great piece of photography.
I think that I will send a call out there to anyone who lives in this city, and has access to a decent digital camera, and can take a picture of the cities skyline, please email me. I cannot afford to pay much, if anything, but I will happily credit the helpful soul with a link on every page of the site. I honestly wonder why I am even trying, but I would really like to get this site to have some serious visitors. Hell, I am even considering registering the domain for it.
I already have two for other sections of this site(geekblog and another yet to be paid for) and one more wouldn't be too bad. The only thing would be I would have to make them a network of sites if they all had their own section. I think the Geek's World Network of Sites has a nice ring, doesn't it? Now, to find $40 to pay for outstanding domains before I go about registering any more. GST in April, right?*G*
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