Building this blog site has demanded more effort than I expected, possibly because I’m on a ferocious learning curve and partly because I have many other calls on my time – so it’s all subject to random interrupts. Also, I haven’t built anything in software terms for over 15 years. Anyway even though I still don’t regard the site as officially live it has attracted too much traffic for the resources that I originally rented, so I’ve had to transfer the site to a dedicated server.
So if you noticed that the site was out of action at any point in the past 7 days, that is probably why. The status of the site is now as follows:
Performance
The site shouldn’t need much attention for a while unless I get more popular than I can imagine.
Content
I am gradually loading my back catalog. I have added quite a lot of content, but back dated it to accord with the time that I wrote it. Consequently it will never show up on the home page. However, it will draw some traffic through Google and other search engines. I eventually intend to load everything I’ve written – which amounts to over 15 years of writing articles, reports, reviews, etc. I’ll only load the stuff that has some relevance, but the outcome I’m shooting for is that this will become a useful reference resource.
Roadmap
I don’t intend this to be a “text only” site. I’ve already added images as a separate line of content for the site and I will develop this in time. I will also be adding other media. Actually I’ll be adding many things. There’s little point in doing that unless the site is “sticky” to some degree.
Traffic
Currently Google analytics is telling me that the site is sticky, with the average number of page views per visit being just under 2.5. About 70 percent of visitors read a single page, while 30 percent are returning visitors and those are the ones that read several pages. Most readers are from the US (after which it’s the UK, then equal activity from the rest of the world).
Layout
I’ve been ignoring layout for weeks now. I’m going to get back to it. When I do I’ll implement the changing skin effect that I’ve been planning for months. However, right now, content takes preference over layout.
