Wednesday February 20, 2002

Web logs

I've spent a little time looking over the web logs for the site. As I've never run a website before, I was quite surprised at the information that gets onto this - type of machine, language, the referring page address etc.

So I can track how many hits I got (not very many yet...), and to some extent where people heard about it (from alt.ascii-art on Usenet, the JavE website etc.) Also, a quick scan today gave me a hunch that some people are clicking on the .jmov links from the main page rather than the Javascript. Obviously they might want to do that, but in most cases, when this has happened there are fewer documents requested from that machine. So to try to improve usability, I've reorganised the way that the episode list is presented. Comments welcomed.

Chickenmail

Really not something that the world desperately needs I suppose, but I have now 'launched' the Chickenmail mailing list. That is to say, I've posted a link to a page with the logo, and an email address to request subscription. The format of the mail is undefined: I think that it will include some sort of digest of the week's diary entries as well.

The list will be hand-maintained, unless ravening hordes of Chickenman fans eager to subscribe make this impossible. (Well, we live in hope). It will go out at an absolute maximum of once a week.