Changes to BarbieReference.com

To keep costs down (I use namecheap to host) I am no longer paying an extra 68.88 a year for the SSL security certificate which is why you see an alert with “Your connection is not private …. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from barbiereference.com … net::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID” when you try to view my website. I know it’s a scary alert, but I don’t sell anything and don’t have a “user forum” so people don’t create accounts with passwords to access the content on my site. There’s no sending of information from readers of my website to me. So I think it’s okay, and as soon as I can afford it, or if namecheap lowers the price I will add it again.
I am also reducing the amount of photographs so I can move to a cheaper hosting plan. I had over 20 Gigabytes of files!! For now I’m leaving up the most popular articles: my Fashion Avenue Guide and Doll Guides. I encourage everyone to download my photos and articles and ask only that you give credit with a link back to my website.

Thanks for being a fellow doll fan all these years and sticking with the site even though I only update about once a year. Thanks for being patient with me while I moved from a personal opinion blog to a more objective reference site.