JAT Observatory
NOT a Wimp
Reged: 02/20/05
Posts: 8893
Loc: In the Primordial Soup
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Today my website had its 50,000th visitor! Yey!
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-Marcus
Hey what did you expect? After all, I am just a pig with a nice smile!
www.jatobservatory.org
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Keith Schlottman
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Reged: 10/02/05
Posts: 52
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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Congratulations Marcus. I have been one of them (several times). I especially like the way you keep us all posted as you make changes to equipment - including your logbook - it's very helpful to see in detail what others are doing.
You obviously are having a great time managing your observatory. Keep up the great work!!!
Keith Schlottman
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Wishing you the Clearest of Skies
Xanadu Observatory
http://www.xanaduobservatory.com
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Chris_H
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Reged: 11/24/03
Posts: 4634
Loc: Norway
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Weeeeeeeeell...I hate to rain on your parade here Marcus, but not really. Every time I went back to your index page, I got counted. You need a counter that logs unique visitors, not page loads 
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Chris
Celestron C8 XLT
TS 65mm EDQ
Orion 80ST
NEQ6 GoTo Mount
DMK21AU618 with Astrodon LRGB filters
ASI120MC
Orion StarShoot Autoguider
Canon 550Da (modded)
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JAT Observatory
NOT a Wimp
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Posts: 8893
Loc: In the Primordial Soup
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Thanks for the comments Keith.
You are correct Chris, the counter counts pages loads. So…the index page has been loaded over 50K times. For me, I still consider it a milestone.
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-Marcus
Hey what did you expect? After all, I am just a pig with a nice smile!
www.jatobservatory.org
Edited by JAT Observatory (07/19/06 11:55 AM)
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Chris_H
Post Laureate
Reged: 11/24/03
Posts: 4634
Loc: Norway
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Well you got 9 more hits from me!  So remember to invite me when you celebrate 100K! 
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Chris
Celestron C8 XLT
TS 65mm EDQ
Orion 80ST
NEQ6 GoTo Mount
DMK21AU618 with Astrodon LRGB filters
ASI120MC
Orion StarShoot Autoguider
Canon 550Da (modded)
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scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 10/25/04
Posts: 817
Loc: Wisconsin
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When someone comes to my home who has been there before I don't discount them as a visitor simply because they have been there before ... so just as in my home, repeat visitors to my website are still visitors and I value the repeat visitor far more than the unique visitor. If you are selling on line, repeat visitors are your bread and butter and the new visitors are frosting on the cake. Congrats on reaching 50K!!!!
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Marsh
Celestron NS 11 GPS, Denk Standard Binoviewer, Pair of Denk 21 EP, Denk PowerSwitch Diagonal, Denk PST Corrector, Coronado PST Double Stacked, WO ZS80 Anniversary,Celestron 15x70 Binoculars
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iceman
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Reged: 03/07/04
Posts: 4846
Loc: Gosford, Australia
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But you don't count a visitor in your home each time they walk from one room in your house, to another room, and then back to the original room again, do you?
The issue is counting "visits", not "page loads".
Of course repeat visitors are great, that's what you want. But you shouldn't be increasing the visit count each time they load a page on your site. I think you misunderstood what the issue was about.
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Mike
. mikesalway.com.au - Astronomy and Photography by Mike Salway
. IceInSpace - The Australian Amateur Astronomy Community
. My Bio | My Jupiter 2007 Gallery | My Image Gallery
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Kim Miau
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Reged: 07/17/06
Posts: 1261
Loc: Malaysia
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Congratulations! Your visitors are 10 times of mine! By the way, are you interested to link with me?
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Robin Lee - Cyclops Optics
Meade 8" LX90
QHY5L-II + IMG0H + QHY8L
Have access to...
Mewlon 300 + EM500
TMB 175 f/8 + Gemini G41
And... bad weather.
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AleX`G
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/29/06
Posts: 877
Loc: Scotland UK
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When I used to run a game server my website had over 36000 different Ips visit it. per month
Unfortunately the company who made the game wouldnt let me sell advertising on thier game.
I know its not astro related but that is an incredible amount of people more than many commercial sites im sure.
Im planning to finish off my nature photography website and then make my new astro site.
Good job on making the 50000 mark though.
Alex
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Celestron/Vixen 102 f9.8
Vixen GP
Canon EF300mm f4L USM (non IS)
Canon 300D
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Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - Niels Bohr
Edited by AleX`G (11/04/06 07:54 AM)
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stevecoe
"Astronomical Tourist"
Reged: 04/24/04
Posts: 3766
Loc: Arizona, USA
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Keith;
I am certain that your observatory and web site have been an inspiration to others trying this same type of robotic observatory. Regardless how you count the people visiting to see your results, congratulations and I hope you continue on to 100,000 and more.
Clear Skies;
Steve Coe
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16" f/4.5 Newtonian on Alt-Az mount by Tectron
Author "Touching the Universe" iUniverse
Author "Deep Sky Observing" Springer
Author "Nebulae and How to Observe Them" Springer
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Kim Miau
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Reged: 07/17/06
Posts: 1261
Loc: Malaysia
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I have a suggestion here. If you use CSS to align your webpage, it will be great.
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Robin Lee - Cyclops Optics
Meade 8" LX90
QHY5L-II + IMG0H + QHY8L
Have access to...
Mewlon 300 + EM500
TMB 175 f/8 + Gemini G41
And... bad weather.
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NeoDinian
Experienced Postmaster
Reged: 10/05/05
Posts: 14043
Loc: Rockford Illinois
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I love CSS... Complete use of it on my site... As well as Strict XHTML 1.1 throughout... 
I hit 30k recently.. I'm averaging just over 3k a month now.
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Neo... (Jeff)
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10" LX200-GPS/SMT UHTC "Draco"
 Rockford, Il.
NeoDinian's Eye on the Sky!
Coming soon:
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AleX`G
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/29/06
Posts: 877
Loc: Scotland UK
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Totally remade my photo website today took about 4 hours to code the php and mysql and i just need to finish off the css styles then i can start adding content.
Any1 else use php/mysql here i want to make an interactive star chart gallery on my astrosite so people can add pictures to the map of different clusters etc.
But the calculations are quite complex for solar orbits.
I think if I did that the processing would have to be done client side as the workload of all those calculations for every star would overwhelm the server. I always find it quite hard to keep to w3c standards though.
Good luck and Clear Skies
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Celestron/Vixen 102 f9.8
Vixen GP
Canon EF300mm f4L USM (non IS)
Canon 300D
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Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - Niels Bohr
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NeoDinian
Experienced Postmaster
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Loc: Rockford Illinois
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I've done my site in all PHP... But nothing really complex.
Don't think you can do client side with PHP... Unless you can port some of the work to Javascript perhaps.
I fully understand the keeping up with standards bit.. Going fully XHTML Strict was a nightmare for me... So much of THAT code instruction is not readily available, and the W3C online checkers don't do anything to tell you how to correct errors!!! But, all my pages are good now.
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Neo... (Jeff)
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10" LX200-GPS/SMT UHTC "Draco"
Rockford, Il.
NeoDinian's Eye on the Sky!
Coming soon:
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Kim Miau
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Reged: 07/17/06
Posts: 1261
Loc: Malaysia
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Quote:
I've done my site in all PHP... But nothing really complex.
Don't think you can do client side with PHP... Unless you can port some of the work to Javascript perhaps.
I fully understand the keeping up with standards bit.. Going fully XHTML Strict was a nightmare for me... So much of THAT code instruction is not readily available, and the W3C online checkers don't do anything to tell you how to correct errors!!! But, all my pages are good now.
I just try my best to follow the w3c validation, not forced to do so.
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Robin Lee - Cyclops Optics
Meade 8" LX90
QHY5L-II + IMG0H + QHY8L
Have access to...
Mewlon 300 + EM500
TMB 175 f/8 + Gemini G41
And... bad weather.
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NeoDinian
Experienced Postmaster
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Posts: 14043
Loc: Rockford Illinois
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I just try my best to follow the w3c validation, not forced to do so.
I'm not forced either. But I will work for full compliance... Something held over from when I was a website award giver. Proud of what I've done...
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Neo... (Jeff)
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10" LX200-GPS/SMT UHTC "Draco"
Rockford, Il.
NeoDinian's Eye on the Sky!
Coming soon:
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Kim Miau
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 07/17/06
Posts: 1261
Loc: Malaysia
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Quote:
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I just try my best to follow the w3c validation, not forced to do so.
I'm not forced either. But I will work for full compliance... Something held over from when I was a website award giver. Proud of what I've done...
Cool. By the way, I found that the validation errors of my blog is mostly the forgivable.
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Robin Lee - Cyclops Optics
Meade 8" LX90
QHY5L-II + IMG0H + QHY8L
Have access to...
Mewlon 300 + EM500
TMB 175 f/8 + Gemini G41
And... bad weather.
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orionthehunters
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Reged: 05/29/05
Posts: 2056
Loc: england
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Congrats on your milestone wonderful site!
James
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Cloudy Nights Astro Art Moderator.
Astro Chat - Co Admin
LX90 mounted on HEQ5 goto Mount.
C8 Orange Tube 1970's
WO 90mm Apo+Heq5 Skyscan Mount
Meade DSI 2 C
Canon 350D+Toucam 3
ST4-Autoguider
http://www.freewebs.com/astroartuk/
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AleX`G
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 05/29/06
Posts: 877
Loc: Scotland UK
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Brilliant site neo and congrats marcus.
I will hpopefully be able to show off my new site next weekend
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Celestron/Vixen 102 f9.8
Vixen GP
Canon EF300mm f4L USM (non IS)
Canon 300D
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Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - Niels Bohr
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