So, sometime ago I got bit annoyed by my site. Mainly because the domain/name I have used on this site. It is old, I have always used it, but it is also bit lame. Because of this I started to find ways to improve/recreate my site.

First I made list of reasons why I want to have website. I want to have blog to post random rants. I want somekind of site where I can place all of my projects for everybody.

Then I started to make new name for my website… Well I didn’t got any good ideas for new name/domain. So the process of updating my site became slow.

After giving up on the new domain idea, I just wanted to recreate the layout, but I bought Starcraft 2… It and couple of other games killed my productivity. I also wanted to continue other projects that I had more fun with. Example Gamingstats is now on very stable state. I am also soon finishing my next map to EP2.

After month of “under development” status, I gave up creating new site/recreating this site. In that one month I got nothing done towards the new site. So yeah…

I may update the main site (www.pelikoira.net) little to point users to content I want them to go, but mostly I am going to keep this site as it is. Maybe new theme to my blog? Maybe…

This year has been very interesting. My blog has gained stable amount of visitors every day (80-150 uniques) and there is good amount of subscribers also. Here is some statistics from this year:

• 2770 spam comments spammed
• 279 comments created
• 51 blog posts
• Most commented article: “World War for ipod” with 201 comments
• Total of 18.5G of bandwidth used
• 224m of hd space used (Containing everything that I host under this domain)
• Total of 1 77 617 hits to webserver
  

Top articles:

• World War iPod touch/iPhone game – 7080 hits
• Dropbox – 5387 hits
• Ultimate irssi guide for beginners – 5262 hits
• Play World War and other games on computer – 2807 hits
• Amazon ec2 – 2701 hits
• Woopra – 2352 hits
• iStat menus system monitor for mac – 2152 hits

Source of visitors:

• Direct 4.92%
• Links 55.25%
• Search engines 39.8%

Browsers:

• Firefox 68.89%
• IE 13.11%
• Safari 10.41%
• Chrome 3.23%

Operating systems:

• windows 67.72%
• Mac 14.09%
• Linux 11.68%

Plans for next year

• create over 51 blog posts
• create 2.0 version of Powerslash (Ajax and other cool stuff)
• create new theme for this blog
• complete Nethack

Happy new year to everybody!

Hello world! I am using iPod touch with wordpress application to post this blog post.

Actually this app looks pretty useful, you can write new posts and also manage comments. It is possible to edit and save posts locally, so you can write story anywhere and publish it when you found WLAN spot.

I hingly recommend this for everyone who has a blog and iPod touch/iphone.

I included couple of screenshots to this blog post.

Now WordPress is even more awesome platform! After upgrading to it with automatic upgrade plugin, I found great clean and fast interface. There is several features that makes life much easier.

No more FTP Yes, no more ftp. I can now upgrade the whole WordPress with couple of clicks, without ftp. Now it is even possible to install plugins just by choosing them from admin panel.

Great interface Much better interface to navigate on admin panel. Dashboard is now customizable. (when will WordPress get netvibes/iGoogle like widget support?)

My ideas from my previous post are now true. WordPress is now perfect. Only thing I would like to have is themes for admin panel.

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, one of my popular pages is the joke about vista’s source code. It got very popular on stumbleupon with over 350 comments. I got about 80,000 unique visitors in two days. Best hit was about 130,000 unique visitors on my website at year 2008 on my previous server. The page was http://www.pelikoira.net/stumble. Stats are here.

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