My Crazy June

30 Jun

What a month.

It started off really well with it being my turn to guest blog for John which brought me to a much wider audience. However it also prompted a few panic stricken emails to my hosts as it became clear that I was going to use my monthly bandwidth allowance within 6 days. Being the all round great bunch of guys they are (hi Marty, hi Khalid ;o) ) they found a way to let me keep going. They really are a great company with amazing customer support -but don’t take my word for it read the impartial reviews for yourself.

I was given some fantastic content by other people to mark the inaugural Autistic Pride Day all of which added up to a great day.

During the course of the month I got linked to from some fantastic blogs: Andy Clarke, AutismDiva, Orac, Jon Hicks, Ballastexistenz, BD4D, Alvit.de, forgetfoo, Neurodiversity, Martagnan, Euphemize, Skeptico, Bonni, Lisa McMillan and Matt amongst others.

Then of course was the big day – our Tabby was born and almost the same day I found I’d been listed on Unmatched Style, CSSVault and nv30.

All this activity took me from a sedate 1.6GB per month to approaching 17GB this month and taken my average unique visitors per day to over 2000.

So a big thank you to all who listed me, linked me or talked about me (and special thanks to John of course ;o) ) and here’s hoping I can capitalise on this extra traffic and get people talking more about the specifics of design and the rights of autistics.

10 Responses to “My Crazy June”

  1. Jon Hicks June 30, 2005 at 13:37 #

    Its important not to get in the trap of writing to an audience. When people started linking to me because of web standards articles, I felt the pressure to keep it up. Its your blog, write what you like!

  2. Matt Setchell June 30, 2005 at 14:01 #

    Sounds like a good month to me 🙂

    Im getting excited about mattian having 2000 uniques a month!

  3. Pierce June 30, 2005 at 15:29 #

    My Crazy June? Don’t you mean my brilliant june? When I read the title I was wondering what crazy (bad) things had happened to you this month. Turns out it’s all positive.

    Did you just up the font size here?

    2000 uniques per day. Gawd. I obviously have some work to do.

  4. Prabhath Sirisena July 1, 2005 at 06:52 #

    Well you thoroughly deserved it. This blog, and Project: New are great resources for web designers. And of course, there’s the left brain part of it.

    As for those 2000 visitors, hmm… I want to hijack your domain.

  5. Toxie July 1, 2005 at 14:06 #

    Welcome to the big time, doing the BP any good ? ;¬)

  6. bonni July 1, 2005 at 15:04 #

    There’s a saying about how you should dance like nobody’s watching and sing like nobody’s listening, and I think that’s true of blogs, as well. Write like nobody’s reading. 😉

  7. hurricane July 1, 2005 at 21:02 #

    Glad to see all the hard work’s paying off 🙂

  8. Kev July 3, 2005 at 05:48 #

    Jon and Bonni – you’re saying the same thing and you’re both right ;o)

    Toxie – big time? You mean it gets bigger than modding Ashley? ;o)

    H – Ta, although I can’t help but notice that you *still* don’t have a bloody personal site!

  9. hurri July 4, 2005 at 16:01 #

    I have laziness issues that I need to work through 😦

  10. Joel Courtney July 5, 2005 at 13:38 #

    *yay* a link to me…

    It’s a great site man and I love reading the articles, but do what keeps you happy…

    ‘ju:femaiz

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