Help
the Registry grow by donating to the site...
We created the GT Registry in January 1994 because of
our love for the cars and our desire to help out other
like-minded enthusiasts. While it started out as a
"hobby" paid for out of our own pockets, the
creation of the website back in March 1996 quickly
caused the registry to take on a life of its own and
grow more than we could have ever imagined.
Naturally, with all the growth also came an
increasing number of expenses required to meet the needs
and expectations of our registry patrons.
Since we still run this registry and website as a
"hobby", we have really struggled at times to
come up with the funds to pay the on-going expenses
required to keep the registry moving forward. Because
of this, donations are very much needed to help offset our
expenses and keep this registry / web site alive. If you have enjoyed visiting our web site
and have found it useful in your quest for information, we ask
that you consider making a donation to show your support (any
amount is greatly appreciated - no matter how large or small!).
In return
for you generous donation, you will receive a custom
message board "Donating Member" title, a
mention on our "contributors" listings and our
heartfelt THANK YOU for helping to support what we feel
is one of the best resources out there for information
on 1982-1993 Mustang GT's.
Note:
As of calendar year 2008, "Donating Member"
titles on our message board will be reset each year so
that only the current calendar year's donating members
will have the titles under their names.
In addition to giving recognition to those members who
give us on-going support through regular donations, this
will also encourage everyone to remember that in order
for the registry website to remain here year after year,
we need your assistance to help pay the bills month
after month and year after year. On-going donations are
becoming critical in ensuring that our website will
remain in existence, continue to remain fully functional
and continue to grow. More
info here...
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Where your donation goes...
The costs to run
the website and registry can vary a great deal from year to year depending on a
number of factors / needs and can be broken down into two different categories -
website-related costs and non-website-related costs.
Website-related expenditures
include website and online database hosting, domain name renewal, message board software,
photo gallery software and numerous other
website-related software costs (including necessary periodic software upgrades). The registry / website has
experienced many growing pains over the years, mainly due to the lack of money
to upgrade our web hosting and software in order to keep up with our growing
number of visitors. Our web site (with all of the pictures, information,
message board files, registration database, etc.) currently consumes
a large amount of server space and we continue to gain more and more
visitors.
 The other type of expenses we
have are non-website-related costs. We are different than your
average Mustang enthusiast website in that our website is actually somewhat secondary to
what we do. As a registry, there are a lot of things we do behind
the scenes that other Mustang websites don't. The registry was
originally created back in 1994 with the primary purpose of gathering
information and data from 1982-1993 Mustang GT's which means we do a lot of work
that most people don't actually see. A great deal of our time is spent
programming, managing and adding to our 6,000+ car
database, doing GT-related
research and continually
adding to our collection of GT-related reference photos and
materials. Of
course, with these tasks come major and not-so-major expenses for things
such as reference materials, software, new computer hardware & upgrades, other
supplies, registry-related phone bills, postage, etc.
As noted above, costs to run the
registry can vary a great deal from year to year depending on things such as
whether we need to upgrade or purchase new computer hardware or software,
upgrade our web hosting, or if we do something out of the ordinary such as have
a registry "get together" like the 40th Mustang
Anniversary MCA show in April 2004.
At the
current time, we are desperately in need of website and database
software upgrades in addition to computer hardware upgrades.
Getting donations to fund these upgrades will enable us to
better integrate our website and registration database and allow
us to get the latest versions of much-needed software for the
website and registry. This, in turn, will allow us to
spend more time on doing registry-related research and answering
your questions!!
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