After two days of work tweaking and moving things around I now have a new look website.
It is hard to believe but my old friend Buster started his blogging career way back in 2006 and since then we have seen the internet develop amazingly.
Our old website was written in hard code called HTML using a programme called Dreamweaver and we used a dial up 28.8k modem to upload pages.
Since then we have changed web hosts and evolved the website which is now created with an open source tool called WordPress.
Changing internet
According to Grovesprof on his website Changing Journalism he reports that back in 2006 many users used Internet Explorer by Microsoft to view the fast growing internet.
He also adds that many users were expecting to view webpages on screens 800×600 pixels and that mobile web use was something just to consider.
It is hard to believe but this year was also the start of such internet behemoths such as Facebook.
Whilst surfing the web for other interesting web changes since we started blogging we came across what is said to be the oldest web domain, Symbolics.com.
What a great question for a pub quiz, as we didn’t know what it was.
It turns out that it was registered on March 15, 1985 by a computer company. It is still active but now only as a piece of history.
The internet now
Looking back over more than seven years of web presence the site has developed to take account of new trends and opportunities.
No longer is a site designed for a 800×600 screen now but has to work on mobile phones and anything up to desktop resolutions at least 2560 x 1440.
Social media also has a place now on my website including feeds to and from Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. See the links to the right of this page.
The new look to my website has been achieved using the News Pro theme from Studiopress. The team of designers and coders have done a great job both with creating this mobile responsive theme, but also answering any setup problems via the forums.
The hosting for the website is with a UK based company called Heart Internet. We have been with this company for many years now and as such would recommend them.
Thanks to both companies for their help and continued support with my website.
A couple of fun facts to leave you with.
- According to the Internetworldstats website in 2012, the latest date for data, there were 2,405,518,376 web users globally.
- And Ookla, a web monitoring tool, reported in Nov 2013 that the average download speed had risen to 23.69 Mbps Broadband. This, if I have my maths correct, is an increase of around 673,753% in six years.
Until next time
Big licks
Charlie