Major Milestone
- Pete Eeles
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Major Milestone
Earlier today, the UK Butterflies website received its 1 millionth visitor!!!
Whoever that visitor was - congratulations. But it was quite possibly a search engine performing its indexing, or some spam robot trying to invade the site. But I'd like to think that a significant percentage of visitors are actually human beings
Thanks to you all for the level of interest you've shown in the website - and especially contributors. I can't believe this website started off with me just showing some photos. How it's changed since 2002!
Cheers,
- Pete
Whoever that visitor was - congratulations. But it was quite possibly a search engine performing its indexing, or some spam robot trying to invade the site. But I'd like to think that a significant percentage of visitors are actually human beings
Thanks to you all for the level of interest you've shown in the website - and especially contributors. I can't believe this website started off with me just showing some photos. How it's changed since 2002!
Cheers,
- Pete
100000 visits is certainly some acheivement.
many of us have personal websites that have not had 1% of this success.
Excellent news and well done, I bet at the rate this site is growing in terms of visitors, quality, and users, it will be an even shorter time before the 2000000 visits are acheived.
Keep up the good work
many of us have personal websites that have not had 1% of this success.
Excellent news and well done, I bet at the rate this site is growing in terms of visitors, quality, and users, it will be an even shorter time before the 2000000 visits are acheived.
Keep up the good work
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Well, given your contribution Guy, you do deserve a prize don't you?
I didn't want to name specific contributors but, if I did, as the only other "Sys Admin" and "Mr ID", you'd be "right up there"!
I'd also like to thank Adrian Hoskins who provided many of the species descriptions (which I've yet to complete - still!).
As for everyone else - you know who you are. Which includes those who have kindly contributed their photos, those that take the time to respond on the forums, etc. etc. ... I thank you all!
Thanks for the avatar Charles
Cheers,
- Pete
I didn't want to name specific contributors but, if I did, as the only other "Sys Admin" and "Mr ID", you'd be "right up there"!
I'd also like to thank Adrian Hoskins who provided many of the species descriptions (which I've yet to complete - still!).
As for everyone else - you know who you are. Which includes those who have kindly contributed their photos, those that take the time to respond on the forums, etc. etc. ... I thank you all!
Thanks for the avatar Charles
Cheers,
- Pete
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I've been butterfly watching since I was 7 (in 1971) but it wasn't until the internet came along that I really met any other fanatics. I started putting my own photos up in 1999 (135356 unique visitors to date...) and was soon contacted by Tim Cowles and Matt Rowlings, with whom I have been on many fantastic trips in Switzerland and Spain. I've visited Roger Gibbons in the South of France and met Paul Kipling here in Switzerland, all because of the internet. Now, through UK Butterflies I feel I 'know' dozens more butterfly watchers and hope I will meet many of you in due course. Sites like this don't just inform and entertain - they bring together dissipated communities in a way quite unimaginable before. So on the occasion of our millionth visitor let me pour myself a pint of good English homebrew and drink to butterfly watchers everywhere!
Cheers!
And thanks, Pete,
Guy
Cheers!
And thanks, Pete,
Guy
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well, better late too, well done, love the new flash banner. Really good work, well done.
Cheers all,
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