February 2006 News
February 28 2006
Second Place Winner.
Valentines 2006 Event CardMasters World Championship
Visit the Cardmaster Hall Of Fame
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Read The Reviews for Cards From Ogden Point
Thank You To Everyone Who Voted For My Site.
The final visitor counts for February for Cards From Ogden Point placed it as the month with the second largest page view count in the site's history.
The final tally was 1,237 visitors viewing 19,074 pages. 5,401 of those pages were Valentine card index pages.
February 26 2006
From February 23 till the end of the month, I undertook a major overhaul of Cards From Ogden Point. There had been an number of outstanding "Bugs" in the various pages on the site that had to be cleaned up. The biggest was the "Options Pages" which had a number of grammar and punctuation errors in both the Headings and Signatures on almost every category of card.
I did a review of the "Hit Counters" on the various pages and found that the vast majority of visitors were not even finding the "Options" and "Text" Pages. The statistics also told me that people were not using the simplest pages -- they were opting for cards that allowed them some degree of creativity. I had tried some pages that were mixtures of the best features from the 3 card categories and those pages got the most attention in the Christmas, New Years, and Valentines card periods.
I then sat down and tried to create a page that can be used to create a "Simple" card if that is what they desire and that can incorporate the benefits of the "Options" and/or "Text" cards in that same card. To do this I made a card creation page that is a copy of the old "Simple Card" at the top of a page. That card can be addressed and sent in exactly the same manner as the previous "Simple Card". Then rather than using a different page from a different index page, I added a lower section to the cards that allows the visitor to scroll down and enhance the card. I put a link to a "Headings Suggestion Page" and a "Signature Suggestion Page." that contains the various Headings and Signatures that were on the "Options Pages." (That required editing two pages rather than the thousand or more "Options Pages" with the grammar and punctuation errors.)
The resulting site will be reduced in size to less than half its previous size because one card creation page replaces three. This will make editing and maintenance more straightforward.
A side benefit of the hybrid pages is that the cards that can be created from the Slide Shows and Random Posty Pages are now cards that can be fully enhanced. It also means far less effort for the visitor to be creative in their card preparation.
The results can be seen from the Main Index Page -- which replaced the old "Simple Index Page."
Click here for the Main Index Page.
February 16 2006
At 3pm on February16 the voting page for the CardMaster Championship was taken down and replaced with the winners list.
Cards From Ogden Point was on the winners list in the #2 position with 88 votes.
Second Place Winner.
Valentines 2006 EventCardmasters World Championship
Visit the Cardmaster Hall Of Fame
**************
Read The Reviews for Cards From Ogden Point
Thank You To Everyone Who Voted For My Site.
February 15 2006
Cards From Ogden Point was once again entered in a CardMaster competition.
The February Valentine CardMaster contest started on February 5 shortly after noon with 15 sites in the competition. The voting for all the sites started off quite slowly and never approached the numbers of votes cast in the Christmas contest.
The visitor counts gradually increased as Valentines Day approached. The 11th was the first day on which there were over 1000 pages viewed and the next three days saw increases in Visitor Counts and Page Views each day.
Valentines Day was a busy day for the site.
The daily visitor count for February 14 reached 205 visitors who viewed 3801 pages, making it the site's second busiest day --following behind the May 30 2005 "rush" that came with the site's appearance in the Langa List newsletter. Those totals added to the previous days in the month to show 831 visitors viewing 12,846 pages at the mid point of the month.
Cards From Ogden Point also reached the "Top 20 Sites" in the My Post Cards Network when it appeared as the Number 18 site on February 12 (based on traffic on February 11). That daily ranking is based on the actual cards sent and received on the Network's pages on the day before the listing. It is counted from amongst the 48221 card sites in the Network.
That was the first time the site made it into the Top 20, having been in the Top 40 a total of 3 times in January. The other sites in the system must have been equally busy on Valentines Day because Cards From Ogden Point did not show up in the "Top 40" on the 15th despite the traffic experienced by the site on Valentines Day.
Second Place Winner.
Valentines 2006 Event CardMasters World Championship
Visit the Cardmaster Hall Of Fame
**************
Read The Reviews for Cards From Ogden Point
Thank You To Everyone Who Voted For My Site.
The final visitor counts for February for Cards From Ogden Point placed it as the month with the second largest page view count in the site's history.
The final tally was 1,237 visitors viewing 19,074 pages. 5,401 of those pages were Valentine card index pages.
February 26 2006
From February 23 till the end of the month, I undertook a major overhaul of Cards From Ogden Point. There had been an number of outstanding "Bugs" in the various pages on the site that had to be cleaned up. The biggest was the "Options Pages" which had a number of grammar and punctuation errors in both the Headings and Signatures on almost every category of card.
I did a review of the "Hit Counters" on the various pages and found that the vast majority of visitors were not even finding the "Options" and "Text" Pages. The statistics also told me that people were not using the simplest pages -- they were opting for cards that allowed them some degree of creativity. I had tried some pages that were mixtures of the best features from the 3 card categories and those pages got the most attention in the Christmas, New Years, and Valentines card periods.
I then sat down and tried to create a page that can be used to create a "Simple" card if that is what they desire and that can incorporate the benefits of the "Options" and/or "Text" cards in that same card. To do this I made a card creation page that is a copy of the old "Simple Card" at the top of a page. That card can be addressed and sent in exactly the same manner as the previous "Simple Card". Then rather than using a different page from a different index page, I added a lower section to the cards that allows the visitor to scroll down and enhance the card. I put a link to a "Headings Suggestion Page" and a "Signature Suggestion Page." that contains the various Headings and Signatures that were on the "Options Pages." (That required editing two pages rather than the thousand or more "Options Pages" with the grammar and punctuation errors.)
The resulting site will be reduced in size to less than half its previous size because one card creation page replaces three. This will make editing and maintenance more straightforward.
A side benefit of the hybrid pages is that the cards that can be created from the Slide Shows and Random Posty Pages are now cards that can be fully enhanced. It also means far less effort for the visitor to be creative in their card preparation.
The results can be seen from the Main Index Page -- which replaced the old "Simple Index Page."
Click here for the Main Index Page.
February 16 2006
At 3pm on February16 the voting page for the CardMaster Championship was taken down and replaced with the winners list.
Cards From Ogden Point was on the winners list in the #2 position with 88 votes.
Second Place Winner.
Valentines 2006 EventCardmasters World Championship
Visit the Cardmaster Hall Of Fame
**************
Read The Reviews for Cards From Ogden Point
Thank You To Everyone Who Voted For My Site.
February 15 2006
Cards From Ogden Point was once again entered in a CardMaster competition.
The February Valentine CardMaster contest started on February 5 shortly after noon with 15 sites in the competition. The voting for all the sites started off quite slowly and never approached the numbers of votes cast in the Christmas contest.
The visitor counts gradually increased as Valentines Day approached. The 11th was the first day on which there were over 1000 pages viewed and the next three days saw increases in Visitor Counts and Page Views each day.
Valentines Day was a busy day for the site.
The daily visitor count for February 14 reached 205 visitors who viewed 3801 pages, making it the site's second busiest day --following behind the May 30 2005 "rush" that came with the site's appearance in the Langa List newsletter. Those totals added to the previous days in the month to show 831 visitors viewing 12,846 pages at the mid point of the month.
Cards From Ogden Point also reached the "Top 20 Sites" in the My Post Cards Network when it appeared as the Number 18 site on February 12 (based on traffic on February 11). That daily ranking is based on the actual cards sent and received on the Network's pages on the day before the listing. It is counted from amongst the 48221 card sites in the Network.
That was the first time the site made it into the Top 20, having been in the Top 40 a total of 3 times in January. The other sites in the system must have been equally busy on Valentines Day because Cards From Ogden Point did not show up in the "Top 40" on the 15th despite the traffic experienced by the site on Valentines Day.
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