'lo people - thought I'd drop a line to prove that I've not evaporated from the planet.
I've been paying lots of attention recently to the stats collected by the webserver for Floating Point - you can take a look yourself here: www.fpdimages.com/webstats
Specifically, since moving the site away from the 'framed' version to the new swanky layered version the traffic is steadily increasing which I'm particularly glad to see since the move to frames caused traffic to crater.
What always causes complete confusion in my mind is why so many people are downloading the font lists. Within the support area I have two large PDF's that contain samples of all the fonts I currently have to hand. You can't extract the fonts, much less use them for anything, but that doesn't stop the top-downloads each and every month being the two PDF's. Anyone got any ideas why this would be?
Also interesting is that the Mario graphics are getting a lot of serves so I reworked the pricing and ability to purchase more efficiently 'pairs' of the two main products.
As you might have noticed on the mini-log I'm being bombarded from time to time with tons of returned spam. This comes and goes but is more a pain in the bum more than any real inconvenience. I'm convinced though that having an easily clickable email address outweighs the deluge of crap I get each day, so it will stay.
I'm investigating the possibility of being able to produce custom-wrapping paper and am in the midst of sourcing a suitable material. I'd appreciate feedback on this thought as always so either contact me directly or put up a post here. Like with most things Floating Point it'll be pretty flexible so contributions are welcome.
More pics coming to the gallery soon, along with a bunch of reader-submitted amusing signage pics :)
Take care,
Friday, August 31, 2007
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Love and Hate Through DreamWeaver
All go here. Lots of changes on the website. The pricing pages have been entirely restructured so that it now quizzes you about your project before producing a guide to the costs involved. I'm quite happy with that, but it still needs some fine tuning.
After making a reasonably snap decision, I've put my contact phone number up there. In the past I've held off on that because I didn't want to get bombarded with telephone sales people, but we'll see.
A tutorial on why tiny gif files don't scale up very well has also been written - that came out really well.
Most of this was originally sketched out using Freemind - a wonderful tool for abstract planning and best of all, free.
Naturally, my love/hate relationship with DreamWeaver has been pushed to the limit. A combination of weird-crashes have plagued me all through the revising of these pages, but right now I have no compelling urge to rush out and purchase a replacement. 'Suck it up, Princess' is definitely the phrase there.
A mini-blog has been added to the front page of the website, this keeps a record of what's going on and is immediately visible to visitors.
The plan to gradually personalize the site away from the sterile 'we' and 'us' is coming along nicely, so now there is a wonderful disconnect between some pages describing FPDI as an outfit with at least two people, and others that describe it more accurately, which is of course - just me. Oh, and I added a pic of me on the front page, and there is a 'Simpsonized' version on the 'About FPDI'.
...and lastly, my customized packing tape has arrived. This compliments my unhealthy fascination with tape-guns nicely >:)
After making a reasonably snap decision, I've put my contact phone number up there. In the past I've held off on that because I didn't want to get bombarded with telephone sales people, but we'll see.
A tutorial on why tiny gif files don't scale up very well has also been written - that came out really well.
Most of this was originally sketched out using Freemind - a wonderful tool for abstract planning and best of all, free.
Naturally, my love/hate relationship with DreamWeaver has been pushed to the limit. A combination of weird-crashes have plagued me all through the revising of these pages, but right now I have no compelling urge to rush out and purchase a replacement. 'Suck it up, Princess' is definitely the phrase there.
A mini-blog has been added to the front page of the website, this keeps a record of what's going on and is immediately visible to visitors.
The plan to gradually personalize the site away from the sterile 'we' and 'us' is coming along nicely, so now there is a wonderful disconnect between some pages describing FPDI as an outfit with at least two people, and others that describe it more accurately, which is of course - just me. Oh, and I added a pic of me on the front page, and there is a 'Simpsonized' version on the 'About FPDI'.
...and lastly, my customized packing tape has arrived. This compliments my unhealthy fascination with tape-guns nicely >:)
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