First Devlounge Article and SquirrelMail
My first article at Devlounge has been published, and it’s all about traffic. Traffic: Quality vs. Quantity is the title, and it talks about pillar and spike traffic, how to build traffic, etc… Here’s a quote from the article:
Traffic is one thing that people strive for. Whether it’s using the pillar technique of building traffic over time, or a spike technique to create bursts of heavy hits for a day or two, traffic rules not only the way your website is seen, but it can affect how likely repeat visitors are.
Read the full thing here.
SquirrelMail is an email application that is light weight, minimal on the design and is based on functionality. It comes with cPanel, and a lot of other hosts. As far as I know, this is the only email app DreamHost offer. I’ve used it before coming to DreamHost, and I don’t mind it, but as my main email I’d like it to look a lot nicer. When I get the time and all things considered, I’d like to write a Greasemonkey script or a user style that can make SquirrelMail look awesome. The themes you select are horrible, and don’t offer much change at all, let alone look good.
I personally use its ‘Servery’ theme, which is an improvement on the default, but still they could all use some work. Some images maybe? I’m pretty sure it’s widely used, so if anyone is interested in a redesign of SquirrelMail in the future, let me know in the comments/email.
In other miscellanea, I’m back in the Technorati top 100k at 97,960. The John Chow Technorati Bug has been fixed for a long time now, so this is legit now 
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Alex Mould
April 8th, 2007 at 2:28 PM
I’d go for quantity
Good luck with devlounge.
Shawn Blanc
April 9th, 2007 at 11:14 AM
I just read your article and thought it was great. I agree that building pillar traffic is the way to go (I like how you called it pillar traffic). Especially if you’re planning on keeping your blog for a while want to build a real community.
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