My site has been up for just over a year. I launched the alexking.org site on November 1, 2002. When I launched the site, I hoped I might get a small audience but I never expected to average over 1000 visits a day in the first year (365,000+ visits), three mentions on Slashdot, over 50,000 downloads of my software or 50+ donations!
I had a couple of goals for the site when I decided to build it:
- Share the software I was writing.
- Meet some interesting people.
- Have a way for my friends to keep up with what is going on in my life.
Mission accomplished.
It has been a very interesting and rewarding experience so far; thanks to all of you for coming to the site and sharing your ideas and feedback.
I remember finding your site when I was first starting out with b2, looking for hacks. You’ve been RSS’d ever since
Congrats.. Thank you for all you help over the years. You really write some quality information on your site. I am glad to know you both as a fellow programmer and a friend.
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Thanks for the kind words guys.
Site Traffic, De-Lurking
When I first launched this web site, I spent quite a bit of time looking at my traffic stats and referer logs. I don’t do that very often anymore (the novelty has worn off a bit), but it’s nice when I do check to see that the number of daily vist…