shanemcdonald.org

Happy New Year to you all and I hope you all have a really great 2010.

Thanks to the 486,892 visitors who visited the website in 2009.

Heres to 2010!

After about 2 years of the same design I have decided to update the design of the website.

New shanemcdonald.org Design

I have used the design of the Blog (iTheme), as a basis for the design and have opted for a more CSS styled website.
There are still a few design bugs, some optimisations not yet done but the hard work of doing the transition has been done.

Using the Server Side Inicludes the transition to the new design only took about 9 minutes for the whole website.

Hard to believe the site is going nearly 10 years now and averaging about 1,900 visitors per day and about 4,500 page views daily. It still doesn’t come close to the 35,000 visitors per day which shanemcdonald.com got at its peak.

There is also a small widget on the bottom of the site to help with social media, search, twittering, rss feeds, site translations etc.

I’m in the process of updating the website following a change from PHP4 to PHP5.

I am also updating the design of the front page and the main music section also. This should be complete in the next week for the front page and by the end of August for the Music section.

I can’t believe how big the site has got in the past few years. There are over 14,000 files on the web server. So I will have to review the site bit by bit.