coming soon: zinepal.com pro accounts

To help me cover the cost of running and developing zinepal.com I've decided to introduce zinepal.com pro accounts in the near future. The idea is to charge a small fee for some of the premium features of the site while keeping the basic functionality available for free. Check out the pro account page to find out the exact difference between the free and pro accounts.

To find out how many people would be willing to pay for a pro account and what you think is a fair price, I have set up a web poll. If you like using zinepal.com and think you may be interested in a pro account, please take a minute to let me know what you think is a fair price. It would be very helpful to get feedback on this.

Right now I plan to offer the pro accounts on a monthly fee basis with a discount if you purchase for six months or a whole year in advance. As for timing, I will be out of town for much of October, so I don't expect to start with the pro accounts until sometime in November.

In other news, I've created a zinepal.com users group over at Google Groups. The Help page now provides a link to that group. I think this is a better way of running the Help section and hopefully users will be able to help each other, as I don't always get around to responding to e-mails right away.