HouseofMike

While I have had houseofmike.com for several years today is the 1 year anniversary of houseofmike running WordPress. At some point I got bored with the previous CMSs I ran, geeklog, xoops and whatever else I played with. I got bored or couldn’t figure out how to do something with it got pissed and dumped it.

I have been very happy with WordPress and the available plugins for it.
Hopefully the site will make it to 2 years.

I didn’t want to do this, but the spam has gotten to be too annoying to deal with.
If you want to post in the Shout Box you need to a registered user now.
It doesn’t cost anything, you won’t get any spam from me and it’s very easy to do.
Just click on the Register option under the Menu and put in your info.
Thanks
You can still post blog comments anonymously.

Over on the right hand side of the webpage down a little is a shout box. Anyone can leave a comment on whatever they want. One of those cool blog things.
It uses Ajax which makes it even cooler. So it updates in almost real time. No need to refresh the page. The plugin is written by Andrew over at Jalenack.
Have fun!

Stats, stats, stats, we all love stats. At least I do.
At the beginning of January I started using awstats to keep stats on HouseofMike. I figure I share some of them for the month of January.

So for the month of January there were 638 unique visitors.
The 15th had the most visits for one day at 71.
Fridays had more traffic than any other day.
The 7pm hour had more traffic than any other hour.
United States was the top country, followed by Great Britain, Canada, Philippines and Germany.
Googlebot was the most active bot with 5,605 hits, taking 86megs of bandwidth, Yahoo Slurp was second.
87.8% of visitors used Windows, 74.5% used XP. Linux visitors were at 5.6%, Macintosh at 3.6%.
72.8% of visitors used Microsoft Internet Explorer, 70.5% used version 6.
19.2% of visitors used FireFox, 10.3% used version 1.5
Netscape visitors were at 0.4%, Safari 2.5%, Konqueror 1.5% and Opera at 0.8%
Top three screen resolutions were 1027×768 at 54.4%, 800×600 at 19.1% and 1280×1024 at 10%.
90.2% of search engine traffic came from Google, MSN was second at 2.7%.
The top three keyphrases used on search engines were finger frenzy 23.9%, colonix at 3.2% and Sharon tendler at 2.7%
The top three keywords used on search engines were finger 8.1%, frenzy 8.1% and yeti 2.4%.

What are excluded from these stats are any visits from my connection at home and from my connection at work.

WordPress 2.01 has been released a month after 2.0.
114 Bugs were fixed in the update. The update went smoothly on HouseOfMike, everything still seems to be working.
A summary of the update.
* You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
* Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
* Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
* XML-RPC uploading works.
* Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
* Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
* Imports now use much less memory.
* Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.