|
Website Report – January 2012 David Farnell At 10.40 pm on Monday 9th January 2012, the 100,000th person visited the village website since 2005. Not bad! The graph continues its gradual rise.
I can’t tell the precise number of people who have made www.the-eversdens.com their home-page. It is sizeable. I am pleased about that as it makes the rolling noticeboard worthwhile. I am also pleased that a few more events organisers are adding village events to the calendar. It saves me a job. Eversdens OnLine is slowly growing but there are still people who do want to know about things but haven’t signed up with Diarmuid yet. Why not, I wonder? It’s so easy and efficient – and private enough if people remember to Reply to Sender.
Shelagh Bidwell’s Nativity photographs were much-appreciated. Also popular were the pictures of Santa’s visit to the village hall, Anna Holm’s beautiful sky pictures, the Walks pages, and the autumn pictures. Some even pore over the Parish Council minutes! Over 400 people looked in on the website between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
I hope you managed to get my video to work on the front page in the New Year. I found out how to embed a You Tube video in the page so even Apple users could see it. The sharp-eyed noticed that most of the 12 pictures were of Little Eversden. The video can still be seen on the website under All the Front Page Pictures in the Eversdens Scene section.
The short-eared owls are creating quite a stir. I have received several excellent pictures. It’s time I did another Local Wild Life series so if you have any good pictures of local wild life I would be pleased to add them to a collection. Any other suggestions will be carefully considered.
The snowdrops are out in Little Eversden High Street. I snapped them for the January front page but once the sun came out rejected that picture in favour of the one of the curly-horned sheep. The sheep are not readily spotted but pedestrians hear their bells.
I have just discovered the joys of the iPad (and its ilk). It is one answer for those whose computer is tucked away in a cold study. Checking emails or consulting the internet can be something of a chore – especially if the computer takes 10 minutes to warm up. The iPad opens up as you lift its cover and, between spoonfuls of cornflakes, you can with a touch look at your emails, check the front page rolling banner, see the BBC headlines, and scan the cricket scores in The Times. (The pictures of The Eversdens look good on it as well.) Lower the cover and it closes before your “absence” has even been noticed! |