Architosh Staff (info@architosh.com)

2 Nov 2001 Updated: 9 Nov 2001

Learn how you can help support Architosh's mission

Architosh's mission has always been clear. From the very beginning this site was about advocating the use of Macintosh computers in CAD, 3D and AEC. Simultaneously, that mission involves helping current users keep using Macs in these fields. And we do that through news, interviews, product reviews and vertical IT resources.

Can Readers Help?

Yes! Absolutely. Readers can help Architosh.com in a number of ways. Listed below are details on all of most of them:

1. - Financial Support: Indirectly

You can support Architosh.com financially by shopping in our e-Store, especially our Associate Apple Store. If you purchase products from the Apple Store online, please visit our site first and get to the Apple Store by clicking on our Apple Store product links or through our e-Store. We earn 1-4% commission on Apple-branded items but please bear these rules in mind:

• Apple gives us just 15 return days. If you shop the Apple Store via our site, you have just 15 days to finalize and complete your transaction if we are to get our fair commission. Also,

• You must have "receive cookies on", in your browser, for tracking to occur. Otherwise, we get nothing.

You can also shop our affiliate partner ICS Store, a super-CAD/3D store and excellent ArchiCAD support store. There we have zero return days, so please make your planned purchases directly (on that day) or always pass to the ICS Store via our site.

In general supporting purchases via our LinkShare sidebar ads, Associate Amazon.com store and others helps us out greatly if and only a large number of you participate this way.

2. - Financial Support: Directly

If you are a software or hardware vendor, please consider advertising on Architosh.com or becoming a Corporate Sponsor. The benefits are great and nothing beats a vertically oriented audience for sell-through and branding support.

The Shareware Model. If you are a reader and would like to make a yearly pledge based on the concept of the site as a type of Web-based IT shareware, then please send us a small check for what you think the site is worth to you or your company. Chances are, you already pay for paper subscriptions (mags. etc.) How much is Architosh worth to you, compared to these other subscriptions?

If Architosh.com is worth just $5/year that is perfectly acceptable to us. We will sincerely appreciate it and it will help us support this site and move on new initiatives.

AREN. Subscribe to the Architosh Readers Email Newsletter. AREN will start in December 2001 and will be a "weekly" email newsletter sent to a list of subscribers only. It will feature some exclusive content and exclusive links as well as summarize all updates to Architosh weekly. Cost is just $12US per year ($1 per month).

Architosh Reader Sponsors. If you send in a yearly pledge of $25US or more we will list you (or your firm) in the left column of ever page on the site for the year. A yearly subscription of AREN will be included.

Payment Types: Personal or Business checks, Bankchecks and money orders.

Payment To: Britasmedia/Architosh

Contact Info: Please send your email address with your payment for AREN. We cannot process your order without email address.

Send Payment To:

BritasMedia

28 Columbus Avenue, Floor 1

Cambridge, MA 02140, USA

3. - Editorial Support

We are also interested in editorial advisors and corporate editors and those who would like to help actually run the site. We have details on these programs in our Editorial web page.

4. - Information Support

Lastly, you can be of great help by sharing information with us. There are many things going on and we can only hear about and keep up with so much. If you have good information that should be on this site, please write to us.

I sincerely thank you for taking the time to read this over and hope that one or more of these support measures are within your reach.

Thank you.

Anthony Frausto-Robledo, B.Arch., Editor & Founder