I hit 1000 visitors per day
My traffic is going through the roof due to my post about footballers’ girls in conjunction with FIFA World Cup 2006. It all started with Abigail Clancy, partner of England footballer, Peter Crouch. For the search term “Abigail Clancy” my post is ranked as number one. From that day, my daily hits are about 600. Then, as World Cup was over and people are busy with Zizou’s head-butt, I’ve thought that my traffic will come to a normal level. But it wasn’t. I hit 1000 daily visitors for the first time. The traffics are mainly from Google. If you are searching about a girl of a footballer e.g. barthez wife, you will see somewhere on the first page my post about Footballers’ Girls – PartII. This is my sitemeter graph.
Although the trend is not so stable, but I’m still happy. And a question pops up into my mind. Should I blog only about tech news and computer, or should I blog what I want to blog and what people want to read?
Video Downloader – Download videos from Youtube
One of my readers, Victor, asks me on how to download videos from Youtube.com. In my last post, I’ve posted a method to do that, but it’s not working anymore. Youtube.com had changed their system. To be always alert on system updating made by Youtube.com and finding ways to get to download the videos is not everyone’s job. Thanks to Jamivoya.com for making such a great website which allows us to get a quick direct link to download from Youtube.com. Video Downloader 2.0 always maintains a close track to the latest update from Youtube.com. This site support 58 video sites to this date and they are still counting. The development team does understand the users. They’ve also create a Firefox plug-in so that you can download the videos with just two simple mouse clicks. No more hustle. If you still don’t have any idea about this, you can visit the FAQs’ page (Help page) of Video Downloader because I’m pretty sure that all of your questions will be answered there.
sNews – One File Content Managment System
sNews is a completely free PHP and MySQL driven tool for publishing and maintaining news articles on a website. Integrating sNews into your existing design is simple, but you could also use sNews on its own, as a simple Content Management System. Consisting of only one file, sNews is extremely lightweight, very easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface.
[via:What is sNews?]
If you are a blogger or want to be a blogger but you don’t like Wordpress because you don’t want to make your hand dirty with all of the functions of Wordpress. What you want to do is just blogging. Then, you might take sNews into consideration because it is very simple and easy to use and even more simple than Blogger. If you are using Blogger, you must republish after you’ve made changes to your template or making new post, but not in sNews.
The added value of sNews compared to Blogger is category. You are able to categorize your posting to be put on the built-in archives. Besides, you also can get the translation packs in case you want to blog in other language. Bulgarian, Norwegian, German, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, etc are supported, which can be downloaded at the forum.
The most interesting feature about this software is, it’s lightweight. The downloaded zip file is only about 24 KB. The main target of the development team is to give the users more functions but using less code. The skinning part had also drawn my attention. With only 11 functions to be remembered, you can convert any beautiful CSS templates into sNews templates. You can found the instructions on this page. You can use more than one thousand free CSS Templates on your sNews from Open Source Web Design.
This blog engine is a good attempt. Trying to reduce the size without sacrificing the functions is a good idea. No worry about the skinning because all of you can do that. But, since the number of users of this blog engine is still low, you can’t expect sophisticated plug-ins. If you want the most out of your blog, use Wordpress instead. Maybe in the next two years, the community of sNews will be blessed with great community. Just wait and see.
Related links:
sNews official website
Darlene Curley for Congress (using sNews)
iollo’s review corner (using sNews)
