The Big Day: How’s your Reboot?
Approximately two hours ago all the sites participating in either the CSS Reboot and/or the Standards Reboot launched their new designs. This May it was a little different due to the new owner of CSS Reboot feeling a little special and adding in the Pligg CMS. So now the quality of your site is based on the amount of readers you have which you can get to vote for you. I think it failed this year with the Pligg system, because a new design shouldn’t be judged on how many people vote for it.
Also, because the genius who decided to use the Digg like system isn’t even using it the their advantage. Anyone can get five votes, hell you can even get 22, but if you don’t order the sites by the amount of votes, then what was the point? I released my design early to get a chance at making the front page, not realizing it would take hours not days.
So, chances are your Reboot may not be as filled with traffic as you would’ve liked, but I definitely can’t complain. I’m way above average for today at around 60 visits already, but I would imagine these visitors are likely to convert to readers or come back, seeing as its an entirely web savvy group. Especially from the Standards Reboot, which I’ve seen around 30 hits from today 
I’d be interested to hear from others participating about the traffic increase and effects the reboot is having on them, so if you’re in it, comment away! The top commentators has also reset, so its a new chance for a free PR5 backlink!
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Razor
May 1st, 2007 at 5:56 PM
my sites average uniques are bout 30-50 a day
wat bout urs?
Connor Wilson
May 1st, 2007 at 6:02 PM
A little random, but I get around 45-55 daily. 80 so far today with the reboot, so lets hope 5 of them turn into readers for 50! My one week average (rolling) is 40 now, so thank you Cutline!
Razor
May 1st, 2007 at 6:08 PM
well my stats aint bad for a 1.5 month old website
Razor
May 1st, 2007 at 6:08 PM
Connor Wilson
May 1st, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Well, in combination with Cutline its the design, writing, etc… but it’s not hard to have good, clean, valid, semantic code with a good hierarchy (although the hierarchy is ok at best here).
Razor
May 1st, 2007 at 6:17 PM
well i could take the seo route but our websites cater for 2 totally different audiences.
the people who read your site (inc me, but i dont read the ree feed) are more technically minded wereas the general audience for my site are people who wouldnt no the difference between http and html
Connor Wilson
May 1st, 2007 at 6:21 PM
You should try Bloglines. Reading things by RSS is so much easier. You’ll never look back
Razor
May 1st, 2007 at 6:27 PM
well whats the point of the reboot if no 1 is here to appreciate the design
Connor Wilson
May 1st, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Haha, good point, but with the 40 or so readers I do still get 45-55 visits, so it’s not going unnoticed
GfxTuts
May 1st, 2007 at 10:58 PM
You reboot has been the best I have seen so far!
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