May Website Brief
May is almost over. Ronalfy.com went through a back-end makeover and was transformed over to the blog format. I expected a significant drop in users, as my link structure changed pretty drastically. I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to keep a lot of my visitors. In the month of April (before my website change-over) I had 437 unique visitors. Towards the end of May, I have 329. Keep this in mind, however. Repeat visitors have soared. For the month of April I had 575 visits compared to 914 visits for May. Awesome!
The Forums have been doing pretty well too. We added in three new members this month. The Forums have been rather “slow” compared to the usual activity, but new members who are becoming active make up the difference. I’m always open to ideas on how to increase membership, or how to encourage forum participation. One of the things I’ve been trying to do was advertise the latest Topics of the Week on MySpace. If you’d like to help out in advertising, I have some HTML code at the bottom of this post you can paste into your website or MySpace profile.
My World War II site is the most visited part of this website for the last two months. Since I no longer maintain and/or update the website, this comes as a surprise. I’m hoping the main Ronalfy.com website can get upwards of 2,000 unique visitors a month before the year is out. That was one of my goals for the beginning of the New Year.
There may be some changes in store for the Ronalfy Forums. I want to create a new skin that is very quick to load that integrates with my main website. So I basically want to create a skin that looks like the Ronalfy.com main page. If that happens, I’ll make the default skin the skin I plan to work on. Members of the Forum can still change their skin to meet their preferences.
For those wanting to help advertise the Topics of the Week, please paste this code into your website or MySpace profile.
<a href="http://forums.ronalfy.com/index.php"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RonalfyForumsTopicOfTheWeek.gif" style="border:0" alt="Ronalfy Forums Topic of the Week"/>
The result looks like this: 
