[Coco] How many CoCoNutz are really out there?

[Frank Pittel]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:35:02PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 06:15 PM 10/6/2005, you wrote:
> >>>I also find that there are people on this list, that are not on 
> >>>CoCo3.com. It can be argued that coco3.com is a very hard site to look 
> >>>at (from a design point of view) and there is just too much advertising 
> >>>and "Stuff" on the
> 
> 
> ??
> With 150,000+ page hits a month and not a single solitary complaint on this 
> subject until now, I won't be changing the design drastically any time 
> soon.  :)

I like the layout of the home page. I think it encourages people to explore the
site.


> >>>home page that really turns a lot of people off. I get hundreds of 
> >>>e-mails through my site because of this.
> 
> The ads are not that bad and actually have a purpose because I have always 
> run the site on a low budget and if it were not for ads and donations from 
> time to time, the site would have been gone years ago.  Actually, the ads 
> make so little that it doesn't account for a fraction of what the hosting 
> fees run.  It's a choice any web site can make and so many do it for good 
> reasons.

I hope that you keep the ads and links. After many years of not using my Coco
I rediscovered it earlier this spring. A google search for coco quickly turned
up your site. From there I found the few remaining venders for Coco related
hardware and software. Finding these otherwise would have been slow and time
consuming. Even now when I'm looking for a Coco related site I go to coco3 first
and follow the links.

Frank