Category: Site News

I’m now actively working on that other site as I try to get it under control. What I’ve learned about the folks who visit the collection of web sites I manage is this:

* They love looking at and downloading pictures
* They are overwhelmingly Windows / IE users
* Search engines play a large role in how people find a site
* Less than 1/4 of all the web pages on a site are ever visited

These shouldn’t be surprising facts, but they appear to be startling when weighed against several different sites. The results are consistent, regardless of traffic volume.

Next up: learning how to get a forum/bulletin board up and running effectively!

In addition to all the other things I’m doing these days, I’ve taken on managing the R/C airplane club’s web site. It is interesting to me since it is a combo of two hobbies I have, but also because the cross section of the web community that visits that page is so different than what I’ve seen thus far.

If you want to take a look you can find the site here.

I’ve just finished yet another newsletter posting. It took a while, and it ended up a bit more political in spots than I’d normally like, but it is done. Go read it on the news page, found here.

Just as a little test, I’ve hooked up 2 news feeds from other sites: Extremetech and Wired. It was a bit of work, but it seems solid now. It almost makes this web site seem like a real one 😛

Check them out in the lower right hand corner of this browser window.

I spent last Saturday skiing up at Dodge Ridge, 3 hours from the Bay Area in CA. You can look at the photos from the trip on the photos page.

Enjoy.

I have come far in a short time, grasshopper. Having just spent a week learning the intimate details of BASH scripting there is now site wide web statistics for any who wish them. I’d say that “I am the man” except for the overwhelming feeling of numbness.

I’ve slept maybe 4 hours a night since taking on this task. I think I’ll turn in early tonight. Maybe some Zzzz’s will be good for a change, and help distract me from the clearly bad plan of working on the web site after I come home from working on the computer all day long.

I’ve just sent out a bounce check message and found that several people on my newsletter list are no longer where they once were. Worse still is that I have no idea when they stopped being valid addresses. As I continue through the cleanup I imagine I’ll find some more that are DOA.

In the meantime, if you want to add yourself back in, visit the newsletter link above and sign up. It’s easy and it’s free.

After a lot of pain, my Tahoe trip pictures are posted. Take a look at them here.

I tried to do something helpful earlier and it backfired on me. In an attempt to cut down on the error messages from the various search engine robots hitting this site I decided to redirect an old directory to this new blog on the home page. Problem is, that breaks other scripts running on the same directory. So now I choose: do I help the robots or help the people?

For now, I choose people, although the logs say that robots outnumber people 8 to 1 on this site. Perhaps someday that trend will reverse and my errors will subside. Until then, no such luck.

I’ve now gone through the whole site and made the main pages consistent and readable. For the most part, broken links and bad formatting have been banished. A host of upgrades to the scripts driving the site are now in place. Only error messaging and subdirs remain a problem.

Ah the joys of web site renewal. I think I’m ready to call it good enough and move on to something productive… like writing!