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Braden
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Posted March 31 2007 12:30 AM   Mood: Tired     

I missed not having a laptop, nothing like working in bed.

This weekend I will be working full time on the site. First up I have to fix a bunch of silly bugs displaying the site in Opera. I am also concerned about the loading time of the site, I see some pages taking >1sec to load and that is way too long. Studies show you have mere seconds to convince someone to stay on your site, better not waste any of that time loading.


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The WireClub Blog, Now With Content!

Posted March 29 2007 08:41 PM   Mood: Wired   Writing: What do you think?  

It's back, now with real content you might actually want to read! In the past the WireClub blog was just announcements and other boring stuff but not any more! Now read the inside scoop on what's going on, what problems we face, how we solve them and what we are working on. You know, interesting stuff that people actually might care about.


So it's been almost a year since we did any real work on the site, how come? As much fun as this site is to work on something has to pay the bills. To make any real money on a website you need a good stream of search traffic and new users, this comes from search engines, namely Goooooogle. Google has a filter of sorts in place that people have nicknamed the “sandbox” that punishes young sites and prevents them from ranking well for search terms. It was very frustrating to work on the site all day every day and not rank on Google at all, even for relevant terms. With no money coming in it was very hard to find the time to keep working on the site and we let it slide into obscurity. We even tried to sell the site a few times on eBay, hoping it would be bought by someone who could keep it alive. Then this month a big surprise came, we started raking for some terms on Google. Nothing big but it was a sign we were no longer being punished by the sandbox.

So that's the story, we will be working on WireClub again part time, and who knows, maybe the site will take off and we will be back on it full time!


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People to meet

Posted March 25 2007 05:45 PM   Mood: Amused     

Finally fixed the people to meet panel on your homepage. Also loading most pages should be a lot faster, especially if they have many pictures. <BR><BR>I am surprised how well the site works in IE7, considering how new browsers usually destroy everything. One day I have to make the site work better in Opera, there are a few bugs mainly related to the colors of link elements. Browser compatibility is pretty much the worst part of web development so I sure don't have much motivation to fix these things...


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Problems with the chat forums

Posted March 22 2007 10:07 PM        

There is something wrong with the main forums, I know about it, my next task is to fix it. Kinda don't feel like it though..


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Changing the site around a bit

Posted March 22 2007 06:17 PM        

So it's been over a year since we did anything to wireclub, time for some maintenance! So far I have sped up a few things such as loading your home page if you have lots of friends and clubs. I will be mostly doing things to improve the speed of the site but if I don't get bored I will add some new features too.


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A bajillion years and no posts!

Posted March 21 2007 06:27 PM        

Whew, it's been a long time since I posted here. I guess I am back, at least for awhile.


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