I am a sucker when it comes to changelog. I document almost every changes I made to my WordPress plugins’ under their respective changelog and I am hopping to bring that good habbit to this site as well.

It has been 1 month since the launch of lesterchan.net Version 3.0. Along the way I fixed many bugs and added a few new features to the site.

1 month later, I present to you lesterchan.net Version 3.10.

Version 3.10 (4th July 2008)
Index

• NEW: Reorganised “Welcome to lesterchan.net” box
• NEW: Seperated My Computer and My Desktop in “Welcome” box
• NEW: Added 10 Recent Posts from My WordPress Plugins Blog to “Welcome” box
• NEW: Added 10 Recent Posts to “Welcome” box
• NEW: Added 10 Recent Comments to “Welcome” box
• NEW: Added user IP below Last Visited date
• NEW: Added a link to my Twitter profile
• NEW: Renamed “Lester …” to “Lester Chan on Twitter” and moved it to “Welcome” box

Blog

• NEW: Renamed “x Comments” to “x Responses”, “1 Comment” to “1 Response” and “No Comments” to “No Response” as reponses are made up of comments, trackbacks and pingbacks
• NEW: Trackbacks and Pingbacks are displayed separately from the comments and they are counted seperately as well
• NEW: Prefixed a “arrow point right” icon to the “Read More” link
• NEW: Suffixed Word, Image and Video count to “Read More” link
• NEW: Added “By Author” in Blog Archive page
• NEW: Added a Star icon beside my name when commenting
• NEW: Added Gravatar to comments
• NEW: Added Tag support for breadcrumb navigation
• FIXED: Duplicate crumbs when doing paginating Category/Date/Author
• FIXED: RSS feed URL now points to Feedburner
• FIXED: Spread the listing of categories and tags into 3 columns instead of a single column

Menu

• NEW: Menu items (not boxes) slides up and down when toggled
• NEW: Menu fading in and out when changing from left to right
• NEW: Paypal donation image now shown by default
• NEW: Added “Quick Links” menu box in order to access my plugin page within 1 click
• NEW: Renamed “Others” to “Network” and moved it from “Navigation” to “Quick Links” menu box
• FIXED: “Menu Settings” menu box icon now reflect the position of the menu sidebar
• FIXED: Menu is now able to move to the left and back to the right in IE7

General

• NEW: Added Google Analytics tracking code
• NEW: Combined portfolio.css and gallery.css with style.css
• NEW: Optimized style.css

Site

• FIXED: Associate links within “lesterchan.net Network” with Lester Chan instead of GaMerZ
• FIXED: “lesterchan.net Network” Link Category named wrongly

Portfolio

• NEW: Added “Lester Chan’s Webpage”, “AllEventsGroup.com”, “FirstFood.com.sg” and “Raffles Airline HR Management System” to websites
• FIXED: Removed Demo link for WP-Wap as it is no longer in development

Gallery

• FIXED: Gallery image description is now centerized

June 2008 Total Traffic

• Total Hits: 7,080,355
• Total Files: 6,379,971
• Total Pages: 623,724
• Total Visits: 152,955
• Total KBytes: 23,339,839
• Total Unique Sites: 102,765
• Total Unique URLs: 17,040
• Total Unique Referrers: 16,419
• Total Unique User Agents: 4,622

June 2008 Daily Traffic

• Hits per Day: Average: 236,011 - Max: 307,398
• Files per Day: Average: 212,665 - Max: 281,803
• Pages per Day: Average: 20,790 - Max: 29,335
• Visits per Day: Average: 5,098 - Max: 6,099
• KBytes per Day: Average: 777,995 - Max: 1,108,793

Note: Green denotes increase and Red denotes decrease when compared with May 2008.

Previous month site traffic: May 2008

I have brought forward the launch of lesterchan.net a few days in advanced as I may not be free on the 9th June 2008 which is the original intended date of launch.

After more than 4 years of using the same layout, the old layout (version 2.0) has been finally replaced with this newer (version 3.0) layout. I think some of you may find this layout a little dull as compared to the previous layout because of the colors used. I am trying to come out with a variety of color schemes if possible because of the colors are controlled by CSS, the only limitation is choose the color. Do note that I am not a designer but a programmer. Most programmers are poor designers and most designers are poor programmers.

Changelog

• Upgraded site from WordPress 1.5.1 to WordPress 2.5.1
• Upgraded plugins from WordPress 1.5.1 to WordPress 2.5.1 compatibility
• Renamed /blogs/ to /blog/
• Merge Calendar and Archive Page
• Brand new AJAX driven Archive Page
• Brand new Donation Page
• Brand new AJAX driven Contact Me Page
• Re-coded Search engine
• Re-coded Gallery feature
• Re-coded Alex King’s Since Last Visit plugin
• Added Plugins Used Page
• Split Programming Page into 3 sub-pages, PHP, Java and Visual Basic
• Posting Comments is now in AJAX
• Movable menu boxes by brother cake’s Docking Boxes
• Menu is able to switch from left to right and vice versa and your preference will be remembered
• Javascript are all compressed/packed by Dean Edward’s Packer
• jQuery used extensively
• ThickBox used for Portfolio Images
• Using FamFamFam icons

Todo

• Add Playlist Page
• Add sitemap.xml
• Update favico.ico

Feel free to browse through the whole site if you have not been doing so for a very long time as most of the pages has been updated.

All the old URLs should be redirected properly to the new URLs, I have spent quite a lot of effort to ensure that.

You can report bugs in the comments =)

May 2008 Total Traffic

• Total Hits: 5,293,620
• Total Files: 4,907,992
• Total Pages: 483,805
• Total Visits: 176,349
• Total KBytes: 12,124,352
• Total Unique Sites: 103,405
• Total Unique URLs: 14,524
• Total Unique Referrers: 16,235
• Total Unique User Agents: 4,935

May 2008 Daily Traffic

• Hits per Day: Average: 170,761 - Max: 213,484
• Files per Day: Average: 158,322 - Max: 199,162
• Pages per Day: Average: 15,606 - Max: 18,660
• Visits per Day: Average: 5,688 - Max: 6,943
• KBytes per Day: Average: 391,108 - Max: 467,967

Note: Green denotes increase and Red denotes decrease when compared with April 2008.

Previous month site traffic: April 2008

April 2008 Total Traffic

• Total Hits: 5,597,872
• Total Files: 5,186,633
• Total Pages: 432,549
• Total Visits: 161,443
• Total KBytes: 12,313,363
• Total Unique Sites: 103,201
• Total Unique URLs: 14,988
• Total Unique Referrers: 17,076
• Total Unique User Agents: 5,057

April 2008 Daily Traffic

• Hits per Day: Average: 186,595 - Max: 214,049
• Files per Day: Average: 172,887 - Max: 199,563
• Pages per Day: Average: 14,418 - Max: 19,094
• Visits per Day: Average: 5,381 - Max: 6,476
• KBytes per Day: Average: 410,445 - Max: 601,975

Note: Green denotes increase and Red denotes decrease when compared with March 2008.

Previous month site traffic: March 2008

Starting from March 2008, I think I shall be posting my site traffic generated by Webalizer on a monthly basis to let my readers know how much site traffic lesterchan.net is getting.

March 2008 Total Traffic

• Total Hits: 4,153,886
• Total Files: 3,781,449
• Total Pages: 504,964
• Total Visits: 145,390
• Total KBytes: 12,001,303
• Total Unique Sites: 100,212
• Total Unique URLs: 13,225
• Total Unique Referrers: 14,879
• Total Unique User Agents: 5,154

March 2008 Daily Traffic

• Hits per Day: Average: 133,996 - Max: 196,464
• Files per Day: Average: 121,982 - Max: 181,707
• Pages per Day: Average: 16,289 - Max: 38,207
• Visits per Day: Average: 4,690 - Max: 6,417
• KBytes per Day: Average: 387,139 - Max: 759,665

Do note that there are NO advertisements on this site, not even a single one (I am very proud of that). I am not intending to make any money out of this site. Nevertheless, I still welcome donations (on the right menu) =D.

I am also using Google Analytics to track specific sites like http://forums.lesterchan.net, http://expenses.lesterchan.net, http://files.lesterchan.net and of course http://facebook.lesterchan.net (there is no index page so I am not linking it) where it houses all my Facebook applications.

FRRO will undergo a scheduled maintenance on this coming Friday, 14th March 2008.

Maintenance Timing
Date: Friday, 14th March 2008 to Saturday, 15th March 2008
Time: 2200 - 0400 (GMT+8)
Duration: Estimated at 6 hours

Reason For Maintenance
Migration of our servers to REACH Datacenter.

Impact Of Maintenance
All services under lesterchan.net (forums, files, expenses, etc), wordpress.sg, lc.sg and all sites hosted by FRRO will not be accessible during this period.

Contact FRRO
If you have any queries, please contact us at team [at] frro.net.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Since I have moved over to my own server which is located in my own country (Singapore), I would like to know the load time for this site from my users, just give a rough estimate will do. The poll is located on the right hand side menu.

Thanks =)

If you can see this post, it means that the moving of host is completed and now this site resides on my own server, FRRO.

This server is housed by IDC Services Pte Ltd and backed by Qala.

This server is a Dell PowerEdge 860.

• Single Dual-Core Intel Xeon 3050, 2.13GHz, 1066MHz front side bus, 2MB cache
• 2x 1GB ECC DDR2 667 SDRAM
• CentOS Release 5

Hopefully, this will be the last move ever.

DreamHost is pissing me off these few weeks as a lot of my users complained to me that the plugins they downloaded from this site is corrupted. This is due to the fact that the connection is being cut off before the file is being downloaded completely. On top of that, the loading time for my site is horribly long.

I had enough of DreamHost nonsense and I am moving to my own server, FRRO after my exams which my last paper is on 4th December 2007.

Before that, this site will go down for at least 8 hours on the 30th November 2007 because DreamHost is moving the server that this site is hosted to another datacenter.

Hopefully by mid December, the move will be completed.