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Well some may know I keep a pretty close eye on the stats for the site here. We have just passed our 1 year anniversary so I will post the current stats the site is at now.

ON SITE STATS

Active Members: 190 (24%)
Threads: 3,882
Posts: 58,177
Members: 776

The post and thread numbers are pretty good, we just broke 700 members recently as well. It is just that darn 190 active members that kinda irks me. I so wish we had a lot more of those people here chatting. So many more opinions and ideas could be givn if we were all here together.

TRAFFIC STATS

This is taken from good old Google Analytics, this data is shown on a monthly basis

264k pageviews in a month is really good i think

This is a picture showing some of the sites we get incoming hits from

So overall, we are doing good. I am very happy with the rate of the growth on the site, and I thank all the member here and staff for making this all possible. Couldn’t have done it without you all.

We now have a gallery feature on site located here. CLICK.

Any member of the forum can upload and share their pics of almost anything they want. Hopefully we can get a good collection of images and pictures from around Delaware in there soon and continue to build

Well, we have been running a Delaware Web Directory here on TalkDelaware for some time. It was never really promoted due to the fact it was on 2nd rate software and I didn’t care for it too much.

That has changed and I upgraded it last night to some very nice software that is much more powerful and feature full. That said, anyone who has a link to any Delaware based website please feel free to add it to our directory (it’s free).

Here is the link to the new site http://www.talkdelaware.com/web/

I will be updating it and adding categories, themes, and links regularly.

Thank you,

Chase

Well since starting this snazzy little venture into WordPress MU we I have encountered quite a few little quirks and bugs in the script. Lucky for me WPMU had a good support forum, which has helped me a lot. We have been threw.

• Major password issues - resolved (I think)
• Templates that don’t work - resolved
• HTML tag stripping - resolved (man that was annoying)

Amongst a few other things. Overall though, I think it will be a good thing, and a good place for people to let it all out.

BLOG ON DELAWARE!

A few months ago The News Journal started the voting for the Readers Choice Awards. I really didn’t think TalkDelaware had much of a shot being a brand new site only open since February. The results came back yesterday and we won best website in Delaware. This is truly a great surprise and honor for me and the rest of the staff and members of TD.

I say staff and members because it would certainly not be the place it is without you, it is honestly the most fun, friendly, and intelligent online community I have ever been apart of and that is possible only threw the hard work and dedication of the people there everyday chatting.

Thank you thank you thank you to all who voted and thank you to the NJ for holding a contest like this. I invite anyone who hasn’t been to talkdelaware.com in a while to come back by and strike up a conversation.

Thanks again,
Chase

Article:
News Journal Article

How we stacked up:
Web site
Winner
www.talkdelaware.com

Finalists
www.google.com
delawareonline.com
myspace.com

There is a new section added to the forum entitled “First State Specifics” in this section feel free to look for or ask for any information you might need regarding Delaware. We will be posting info regularly in the section on topics ranging from State Contact Information to Haunted locations in Delaware and everything in between.

That’s right its starting to get colder, seems to me like it is a little early but eh, what are you gonna do?

As I get up for work and head out to the car, I am grabbing my jacket now, theres moisture on my window. My heat doesn’t work and I have to fix it before it gets too cold. I had to replace the battery yesterday because it almost didn’t start on my way home from work, that was scary, being stuck at work…
The leaves are starting to change and some are falling, only tasks I have are cutting the grass maybe once more and closing the pool up for the year…..yay fun!!

Have you heard about the new blog widget? It is like the webrings from the 90’s except for blogs and it’s automagic.

Get Blog Rush see how to get more traffic to your blog in 5 minutes.

We are using it now on Delaware’s Blog, you can see the little widget over there. Check it out and sign up today to get some more views to your blog

We are going to have a weekly wrap-up about what has happened on the forum in the past week on the blog here.

SO, what happened this week?

Well, the 16th was Green Lantern’s birthday for which we all wished him a good one. He is one of the Super Moderators here at Talk Delaware and does a great job at it!

We had a influx of spamming robots that broke through our security measures and posted some bad links. They were shut down and dealt with rather quickly and new security provisions have been put in place. We hope to not see from them again; although if we are getting spammers that tells me that we are getting noticed and coming up in google, yahoo, etc search results.

Yesterday was fathers day, and most people I suppose were busy all weekend with preparations and celebrations, so the site was kinda quiet this weekend. I hope all the other fathers out there had just as good of a day as I had!!

The blog was added this last week on the 13th, a lot of us are new to this, and some not. Right now we have arkangel4time, HEDDY, and rosiebell listed as authors here, they are all much better and more articulated then I am. So you all can look forward to seeing some posts from them soon.

That I guess concludes this week, this is my first time doing this so I hope it was informative for our readers.

This happened last month, since we just added the blog here, I figured I would write about it.

Talk Delaware has won a very nice award for forum excellence. This is a monthly contest that is run on a very large and popular website for forum admins I’m active on. The competition is pretty fierce and your board has to be the best of the best to win it. and we did thanks to ALL OF YOU

The thread is HERE

Our review is HERE

Thanks to all the forum members for making Talk Delaware Forum a truly great place to be!!!!

-Chase