More website thoughts

Well, the feedback was overwhelming in favour of put the Rosalie's Medieval Woman part of my website back. And now it has begun!!!!!!. Here's the updated updated landing page now with myself in colour and the link to the Rosalie's Medieval Woman sitemap, most of which has inactive links as of yet.


 

I've had a good, hard look at my old website and have worked hard all afternoon to upgrade... 2 pages and 2 menus and 1 graphic. wahahaha! Some of the pages won't be returning, and everything else will be looked over a page at a time before reloading. If I put it all back as is, I know it will seem too big a job to update, but if I load a page at a time as it's done, every page will feel like an achievement!

I still need to rephotograph some experimental archaeology and redo that page but perhaps by the end of tomorrow, the tutorials may be all up again at least! They seem to be the things used most!



 

To ad or not to ad...vertise, that is.

QUESTION! I know ads are annoying on websites, but it suddenly occurred to me that I *could* have a few ads for my own stuff sprinkled here and there on selected pages only, not right through the whole site. If ads are images with a text link in the body, there's no collecting data or tracking concerns from third parties. Like ads in a magazine!

I've had enquiries about ads before but have not wanted to do clicky links for businesses. The links page and where to shop page aren't going back up (where I posted up recommended businesses for free as a text link,) so PERHAPS I could include some other paid ads if I personally recommend them, BUT I'd be wanting to design the ads myself to fit the vibe of the page etc which others are unlikely to want. I could have some style guides if people were interested so they could see what sort of thing I mean and how their ads would look. I worked in advertising for newspapers and print media for a looooong time, so I'm not hopeless. Ads would need to fit the colour scheme of the individual page so as not to be wildly intrusive. No video. No pop-ups.

This is all assuming anyone I like would also like to advertise on my site.

I asked fb yesterday but haven't checked all the comments from overnight, but people are having a lot of feelings, so I'll read them today and report back.

May I have honest feedback about this?

A. No ads at all.

B. Just my own ads

C. Outside paid ads but be super picky with the placement, vibe and colours so they don't take away from the content on the page. No video. No popups.