October 2003

• 1st October: Large update of the site. Changes include:
  • Updating of links on the Single Page Stucture page
  • New Home Page, including the option to make a PayPal donation via the button on the top left
  • Providing a Site Map
  • Changing the Ryman League: Division 2 feeders to be Division 1 feeders instead
  • Adding three new sections (Spartan South Midlands League, Combined Counties League and Essex Senior League)
  • and a whole host of minor changes, fixes and corrections.
• 3rd October: The site records its 11,000th visitor, 17 days after the 10,000th. This takes five days off the previous record for 1,000 visitors.
• 4th October: The 7-day record is broken again, to stand at 476.
• 10th October: The site now has 22 pages. The number of leagues stands at 302. I begin a systematic check of leagues listed as having no feeders, to see if this is definately the case.
• 11th October: The 28-day record is broken for the eighth time in nine days, reaching 1,635.
• 17th October: Again, the 28-day record gets broken, to stand at 1,639 unique visitors.
• 20th October: The site's first year draws to an end, with its 11,882nd unique visitor.
  • The site has had 46,631 pages views
  • Visitors have recorded from places all over the world, including Irzq, Venezuela and Costa Rica.
  • Outside the UK, the most popular countries have been Australia and Singapore.
  • Short-term plans include continued checking of bottom leagues, and a compact version of the league index.
  • Medium-term plan is to switch the site to being database driven. Intial research into this is planned for December
  • Long-plans include doing the pyramids for Welsh, Scottish and (English) Women's football, and possibly English Rugby Union.
  • By summer 2006, the site must be moved onto an commercial host.
• 22nd October: The site records its 12,000th visitor, 19 days after the 11,000th.
• 24th October: The Ladder Service is introduced. It provides free of charge a page to any club or league, showing its position in The Pyramid.
• 25th October: Purchase domain name thepyramid.info, along with a hosting plan. The hosting plan offers ample scope for growth in traffic and site size.
• 26th October:
  • Spend several hours uploading and configuring site on new server.
  • Now have new email address for the site - tom@thepyramid.info.
  • Design new title graphic.
  • The seven-day record is rebroken, reaching 290 unique visitors
• 30th October: Both the 30-day and the 7-day record get broken, standing at 1,699 and 504 unique visitors respectivly.
• 31st October: Break up the History & updates page into more managable sections.

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