We pride ourselves on the fact that we offer our intellectual work for free. The many workbooks, tutorials, and other information based commodities are given to you at no cost. Our philosophy is the same philosophy behind the free-ware movement. The basis of most of what we do is concerned with learning and self-realization, both of which are essential for the existence of any democratic state.
The fact that we believe that education and self-realization are attributes that every society should provide to its citizens, does not mean that we feel that everything should be free. This type of thinking is naive, and the creation and maintenance of this site does come with costs. Since this site is a labor of love, then we have no expectations of being compensated for the time that is used to create this site.
Here are some of the costs that we have incurred since the formation of this site:
- Registration of domain name
- Yearly costs for our Internet host
- We recently just purchased a scanner so that we could scan the numerous workbooks by TD Lingo, and papers that we only have hard-copies of
- Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat, MS Office 2007, and Fireworks are both applications paid for out of pocket and are essential for the creation of this site
- Continually upgrading our hardware
- A digital camera for photographing images used in our tutorials
- And the list goes on...
For those who are using the tutorials and/or workbooks or downloading some of our music then it could be rationalized that you are receiving a product from us .Which is great. Some may feel obligated to pay for the products that they are using and may not have the means to pay, but there are ways that you can help...use our affiliates.
Note: we have reduced the number of ads on our pages, and moved the ads to the bottom of each page. You can purchase items from any of our "affiliates." The affiliate ads are the large image ads. We will soon have a page containing all of the companies that we are affiliated with. If you are just a generous person, then you can make a donation to us via Pay Pal.
Since Google ended its sponsorship programs, then there are basically fewer ways that you can help us: 1) Use some of our affiliate programs, 2) send some money to us via
PayPal where you will send the money to ronwmccomb(AT)msn.com. You may want to email me first. 3) You can send some money directly to us using the address below.
TEWM
6235 Crested Butte Circle
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
ronwmccomb(AT)msn.com
4) Just by using our site, and clicking on the Google ads helps pay the bill of maintaining a server. With that in mind, one of the best things you could do is spread the word of this site.
The important thing to remember is that we are maintaining this site because we believe in what we are doing. We are trying to bring happiness into the lives of others and we want to share with you some of the great things that we have discovered over the years. Whether you help us or not is not the primary concern, but you enjoying our site and finding it beneficial to you is what we want the most. Enjoy and please drop and email if you like...it is nice to get compliments or just chew the hay with our fellow citizens. Thank you.
