Blog Traffic

I knew that taking 2 weeks off blogging was going to have an impact to my site traffic. Luckily it wasn't as bad as I had feared. This month was the very first month that there was not a growth from the previous month since the blog birth. There was even a last minute surge which ensured I hit 1,000 visits this month. Spot on. Exactly 1,000. How odd is that?

I had been experiencing an average of 46 visits every day. With my blog sabbatical I saw the average visitors/day drop to 19 although that recovered fairly quickly and I ended the month back up to an average 39/day. (Who are you all?)

So all in all not as bad as I had feared but not as good as I had hoped! I would have like to have kept up my growth but 1 months in 8 ain't all that bad!

Keep visiting! Comment more! Tell me what you like and what you don't. Most of all, I hope you enjoy reading about our mundane and extraordinary adventures!

If there is anyone out there reading who would like to start their own blog but don't know where to start just let me know and I can walk you through the easy peasy steps. I'm thinking about hosting a blog masterclass at my home in September. If anyone is interested just drop me an email note.

If you aren't in the UK, ask Stephanie if you are in Colorado and Janell if you are in Nebraska. Both are proficient bloggers. If you aren't in any of those locations just go to Blogger and follow the seriously simple instructions. If I can figure it out, anybody can!

Mac

For Christmas, my darling husband decided to give me a Mac. Now he did not come to this conclusion on his own and to be fair I tried to convince him that he really wanted one so that I could actually use it. So when I opened up the boxes Christmas morning I was super duper excited. Now (1 week after) not so much. Marc has gotten it all set up. In theory I should be able to run both computers and switch between the two with just the switch of a button. The reality is far off that. The button doesn't work for some reason and my wise hubby can't quite figure it out. It is bad when he can't figure something out.

To make matters worse my beloved puppy is eating the cables. that's right, first he ate the cable that goes between the 2 computers and now he has eaten through the cable to the microphone. Grrrrrrr!

Blogger Beta doesn't seem to work so well with Macs. I have no rich text editor and uploading pictures is a real test of my html skills and as you can probably tell from a couple of my previous posts I am failing that test. Who would have thought that I could learn a new trick? OK, so am still learning but getting there.....Think I will have to spend some time messing about with the Mac to get to know it and return to using the Windows machine for the time being. The trouble is I learn by doing so if I can't force myself to use it I won't. If anyone wants to give me some hands on lessons, I will more than happily sign up! Any Mac experts out there?

I'm struggling to download photos and edit them (although this is supposed to be one area that Macs do so much better than Windows. Now I hear Macs are great with movies.....well I've given You Tube a go so will see how this works with Macs. Will advise!

PS I am back to work and sifting through the rather large stack of email (although not as bad as it could have been given my Blackberry).