In the early hours of this morning, the visits counter here sneaked quietly up through the 20,000 mark. Wey-hey-hey!
Might not sound all that many, but it’s feeling good to make this sleepy hollow, with a pretty much specific content, a regional emphasis, and meanwhile keep the number of landings from weird and wonderful search terms down to a minimum. And the timescale is only this incarnation, since the whole blog was taken off for a snooze in the early part of ‘06, and not rebuilt until oh, this May or June.
If you’re interested in these things, and I do like it when other people share theirs, the most popular Google searches, landing in probably the right place (and they’re almost all Google) are:
and of course, extra bangs courtesy of Jim at Notes and Politics, and Hariman at No Caption Needed, plus the regular wee boost from the latest new badge owner, makes this page the most popular:
The newly installed Feedburner plugin is seeing 28 regular visitors who’re using a RSS reader or aggregator. Googlereader and Bloglines are the most popular, but Netvibes, Newsgator and something called AppleWebKit made new appearances today.
Don’t know about you, but I think that’s a lot of people reading feeds, when it’s still quite hard to explain exactly what Really Simple Syndication actually is. It’s one of those things like tabbed browsing that you only get once you’ve got it, I reckon. So a big warm fluffy hello to all my regular readers, and how fabulous is that?!
I’ve tidied up the Page structure too, putting articles under um, Articles and stuff like the schwag under Tangibles, which definitely means a few broken links out there, but on balance I think it’s better to do it now, early on, than to have a long string of largely unrelated tabs in the header.
Although I did hum and har about that, since it adds another heirarchy, and as we all know, heirarchies are bleh on websites, as they are in life. Flatter is better. I might do a 100 word summary of each article on the Articles page, so people don’t have to click through just to see what it’s all about. Or something.
But it also occurred to me that doing this wee restructure, having a whole page called Articles, probably means I’m going to be writing more articles, hah. Can’t see that happening very fast, mind, not with skool school college kicking and screaming into gear.
[That's quite enough of the meta- back to the photography. Ed]
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20k, 28 and a Tidy Up
In the early hours of this morning, the visits counter here sneaked quietly up through the 20,000 mark. Wey-hey-hey!
Might not sound all that many, but it’s feeling good to make this sleepy hollow, with a pretty much specific content, a regional emphasis, and meanwhile keep the number of landings from weird and wonderful search terms down to a minimum. And the timescale is only this incarnation, since the whole blog was taken off for a snooze in the early part of ‘06, and not rebuilt until oh, this May or June.
If you’re interested in these things, and I do like it when other people share theirs, the most popular Google searches, landing in probably the right place (and they’re almost all Google) are:
and of course, extra bangs courtesy of Jim at Notes and Politics, and Hariman at No Caption Needed, plus the regular wee boost from the latest new badge owner, makes this page the most popular:
The newly installed Feedburner plugin is seeing 28 regular visitors who’re using a RSS reader or aggregator. Googlereader and Bloglines are the most popular, but Netvibes, Newsgator and something called AppleWebKit made new appearances today.
Don’t know about you, but I think that’s a lot of people reading feeds, when it’s still quite hard to explain exactly what Really Simple Syndication actually is. It’s one of those things like tabbed browsing that you only get once you’ve got it, I reckon. So a big warm fluffy hello to all my regular readers, and how fabulous is that?!
I’ve tidied up the Page structure too, putting articles under um, Articles and stuff like the schwag under Tangibles, which definitely means a few broken links out there, but on balance I think it’s better to do it now, early on, than to have a long string of largely unrelated tabs in the header.
Although I did hum and har about that, since it adds another heirarchy, and as we all know, heirarchies are bleh on websites, as they are in life. Flatter is better. I might do a 100 word summary of each article on the Articles page, so people don’t have to click through just to see what it’s all about. Or something.
But it also occurred to me that doing this wee restructure, having a whole page called Articles, probably means I’m going to be writing more articles, hah. Can’t see that happening very fast, mind, not with skool school college kicking and screaming into gear.
[That's quite enough of the meta- back to the photography. Ed]
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