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IMPORTANT NOTICE (please read)
11 years ago
Hi, gang!
Well, I'm afraid it's official: after nearly 25 years the CrittersOnline website is no more. After taking almost two days for Yahoo Small Business to respond to the trouble ticket I submitted to find out what happened to my website, I get an auto-generated email from them saying, basically, "Here, click on this link which will lead to a series of useless questions which will ultimately lead to you having to call our 'Hotline of Endless Doom' (AKA their customer service). Oh, and by the way, you're not a Yahoo Small Business subscriber anymore so we can't help you." At least according to my CC statement that we just received yesterday Yahoo is no longer billing me for a website that doesn't exist. So, kiddies, that's it - the end of Critters' online appearance at last.
I do, however, wish to stress the point that this IS *NOT* the end of my cartoon - just the web presence as I had before. I'll keep drawing even as I no longer have an official website with which to showcase it. On my end, I feel rather "Meh" about it. I mean, yeah, it sucks to lose what I had built up and maintained for so long. But at the same time, with as small - and quiet - an audience as I have/had I was increasingly finding it difficult to justify the expense of a website that so few people visited for a cartoon that so few people read and that I have so little time to draw in the first place.
Moving forward, I do rather fancy having a web presence for my art. And tho my audience is small, I do like catering to them (yeah, I'm one of those rare reader-friendly artists who try and get to know each and every fan and what they think). So, I'm thinking at some point when I am able to get back to my cartoon with any frequency that I'd like to take out a domain name again. Like my Garagemahal when we move, I built CrittersOnline once; I can build it again. In the meantime, I'll keep my FA account up and running as I always have and will post stuff to it (and the other place where some of my art is, my Critters Cartoon Fan Page on Facebook). But until then, farewell, CrittersOnline.org. It was a fun ride, and you disappeared looking the best you ever had.
Well, I'm afraid it's official: after nearly 25 years the CrittersOnline website is no more. After taking almost two days for Yahoo Small Business to respond to the trouble ticket I submitted to find out what happened to my website, I get an auto-generated email from them saying, basically, "Here, click on this link which will lead to a series of useless questions which will ultimately lead to you having to call our 'Hotline of Endless Doom' (AKA their customer service). Oh, and by the way, you're not a Yahoo Small Business subscriber anymore so we can't help you." At least according to my CC statement that we just received yesterday Yahoo is no longer billing me for a website that doesn't exist. So, kiddies, that's it - the end of Critters' online appearance at last.
I do, however, wish to stress the point that this IS *NOT* the end of my cartoon - just the web presence as I had before. I'll keep drawing even as I no longer have an official website with which to showcase it. On my end, I feel rather "Meh" about it. I mean, yeah, it sucks to lose what I had built up and maintained for so long. But at the same time, with as small - and quiet - an audience as I have/had I was increasingly finding it difficult to justify the expense of a website that so few people visited for a cartoon that so few people read and that I have so little time to draw in the first place.
Moving forward, I do rather fancy having a web presence for my art. And tho my audience is small, I do like catering to them (yeah, I'm one of those rare reader-friendly artists who try and get to know each and every fan and what they think). So, I'm thinking at some point when I am able to get back to my cartoon with any frequency that I'd like to take out a domain name again. Like my Garagemahal when we move, I built CrittersOnline once; I can build it again. In the meantime, I'll keep my FA account up and running as I always have and will post stuff to it (and the other place where some of my art is, my Critters Cartoon Fan Page on Facebook). But until then, farewell, CrittersOnline.org. It was a fun ride, and you disappeared looking the best you ever had.
MelWhite
~melwhite
Perhaps Tumblr or Facebook?
peterabnny
~peterabnny
OP
I do have a Critters fan page on FB but there aren't many who are on it. The problem comes in that while everyone and their uncle is on the Internet, that's not the case with FB. I'm thinking having a site would still be more accessible than with a FB page. Tumblr I'm not as familiar with...
