I've seen other webmasters put "donate" buttons on their websites. Would you ever donate or have you ever thought about donating to any site that offers such a feature? I personally think it's kind of cheesy but I see so much of it, I wonder if people get a lot of donations.

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Hi Max,

It depends on the nature of the site. If it's a site that is truly, truly helpful and a place I visit often then I may consider giving. But if I just visit a site once or twice and notice it I usually don't give it a second thought.

And of course if it's a charity-type site then I think a donate button may be useful, but not sure if the average webmaster would benefit much from it.

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i have donated before to a site. The site is helpful and i return to it every now and then. The guy did it out of fun so didn't hurt donating $5 dollars to the site

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That's great to know, webdev, I'll be emailing you when I get my donate button up. (only kidding!)

I was just browsing today and noticed the popular joomla site has a donate button. Now that's an example of a great use. When you offer something valuable for free (or a fun site like webdev mentioned), often times people don't mind giving.

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Hey not a problem. But i can only donate once.

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Being a poor starving high-schooler, I can't donate very often. Unless you consider it to "donate" to make all those silly ads I did for affiliates a year or so ago. :P

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LOL, Shaun. Here, here. I'm too broke to donate right now.

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I agree with everyone, to justify yourself to have a donate button I would say you have to offer something out like great quality information or perhaps an e-book a range of music who knows?!

Or obliviously if you are in need of donations for a certain project like a charity or fund raising activity then I would say its quite reasonable.

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