So many domains

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 2nd, 2010 | 0 Comments

I have registered a lot of domain names over the past year and I am starting to lose track of where I have registered each of them, it is hassle having to look up old e-mails or whois.net. So I have decided that I will transfer all the domains that I have in different places all to the one domain registrar. Leateds.com is currently hosted with GoDaddy, GoDaddy was the first hosting company that I used, I was new to buying hosting. Usually I would just use free hosting sites, the downside to that was all of the ads and if you really wanted to be taken seriously you have to have a simple domain not one like yourname.incrediblefreehosting.com. It is just too long! Anyway although GoDaddy is a really big hosting company I found my site went slow with them, so I ended up moving to another hosting company after my first three months with GoDaddy expired. Since this blogs domain is hosted with them I need to move it somewhere else, I have most of my domains hosted with name.com, I find that they are good value for money :D . Sometime over the next few days the Leateds.com domain will go down temporarily while it switches over to its new registrar. To switch the domain over it will cost a little under €6 or $9.99.

One year today

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 1st, 2010 | 0 Comments

For the past 12 months now I have managed to make a few blog posts every month. Last march I decided to really take an interest in my blog. I started this off by setting myself the task of blogging consistently for the whole month of March. For the first 7 or 8 months I was doing reasonably well with my blog posting, once it hit December I barely made any posts, I know that during the winter months I work a lot more as I have no college and I think this is reflected on my blog for that period of time, as I would be working until midnight most nights. Now however that is not the case, I am back to working normal hours and really have no excuse not to try and get more posts up more regularly. Just to show what having an interest in your blog and with regular blog postings the stats really do go up! After my first month of blogging, for the full month of march, my blog received 716 unique visits which is incredible compared to what I my blog was receiving before I took an interest. In January 2009 I had only 127 unique visits! So I am really happy that by having an interest in my site it really will pay off, when people come to my site from Google for example, I think it's great, and it is even better when they get what they are looking for and comment! Now since starting blogging regularly my blog's visitor count has rocketed up, my monthly unique visits now average between 12,000 and 13,000 unique visits :D . My daily visitor count is 500 unique visitors on average! This really makes me want to take more interest in my blog once again. If I can increase my traffic that much in one year, it will be interesting to see these same stats in another year. The percentage increase of visitors to my blog compared to the same time last year is just over 8,000%! :o

Really not happy with my blog currently

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments

There are a lot of different things on this blog that i do  like however there is also a lot i do not like. I think it is mainly leaning in the direction of things that i do not like.

A few months ago i revamped this blog completely; it was to show that i have more interest in this blog and by changing everything and having a nice new logo it was a mark on when i started to take a keen interest in blogging on a more regular basis.

Now i feel that there are a lot of changes that need to happen and that i have started to look into. First off i really want to add a little more light to the design, so i am on the lookout for a really nice theme, wordpress of course, that with a little modifying would suit this site.

Looking around for themes is really difficult as the majority of them are far too cluttered, what i am looking for is a nice bright and simple theme, and i want one that is really quick at loading. I know plugins take time to load and that is what really slows down a site but also so can a theme.

That is onto my second point, any slow plugins will have to go and will be getting replaced with lighter ones. The twitter updates that i currently have in my sidebar really slows down the page load, so i am going to do away with that in my next theme when i get it sorted out.