New Feature: Text Ads

Published by Waldo Jaquith on July 1, 2005 in Site News. 7 Comments

People are forever asking me to use this site to announce events and fundraisers and the like, and, frankly, life’s too short. I don’t want to open the floodgates by announcing some, so I announce none. That’s problem #1. Problem #2 is that my washing machine died a few weeks ago, and I can’t seem track down a used one to buy for a few bucks.

Solution: cvillenews.com text ads. If you’re looking to buy something, selling something for $100 or less, want to freecycle something, or announcing some kind of a community or non-profit event, you can take out a free little ad that will appear on every page on the site. Just fill out the little form, and your ad will start appearing once I OK it.

This is thoroughly experimental. If it’s not useful to anybody, I’ll get rid of it and we’ll make like it never happened. If it’s wildly successful, I may enhance it in any number of ways. When bugs appear, maybe I’ll fix ’em. Give it a whirl.

So… About that washer?

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