I recently have released new version of my website. Now it is good time to look what I have done. Two and half years ago, I started my website on free hosting. There wasn’t lots of content and the layout weren’t very good… Here is screenshot from early layout. I have unfortunately lost the first original layout.

After sometime, I decided to move to “real” webhosting. After that I installed Wordpress and tried to have a blog. I didn’t have enough time/skills to keep it up, so I went to “normal” website. I installed Joomla for two months. I hated joomla and moved back to hand code my website.

Old Pelikoira website. CMS is cutenews.

After couple of big difficulties on my hosting, I moved to new servers, and got much better systems. I restarted blogging with better succession.

Couple days ago, I read some of my text on my website, I realized that the content isn’t good. Most of text contains lots of typos and it’s mostly boring.

So I recreated my website in two parts. Blog and Website. Blog is the place where I write my random thoughts, and other stuff. On the “main” website you can find my projects, links and other non-blogging stuff.

Screenshot of Pelikoira website before total makeover.

So what is my records? Well, my most popular website is joke about vista’s source code. It got very popular on stumbleupon with over 350 comments. I got about 80,000 unique visitors on two days. I got about 130,000 unique visitors on my website at year 2008 on my previous server. (I lost my awstats logs when I changed hosting )

Old content is now deleted, but  you can still access the downloads to get old stuff. Some big projects are coming soon…

http://www.pelikoira.net

I moved away from my previous host. Here at new host I have couple of cool features like, Ruby on Rails, Python, 10g storage and unlimited amount of MySQL databases. On previous host I only got 3 databases and 300m of storage at same prize!

So now I have this new blog. It is currently pretty basic, no custom themes, no plugins, no posts. But when I got some time I will make my own unique Wordpress theme. I will also add some plugins and other cool things.

Also check out my website: www.pelikoira.net