Ok, so this week has been like a ghost town here on Secluded Habitat and also on Geeky Habitat. I thought I should explain why. This will be the shortened post without all the geeky details. If you are interested in reading the full geeky version please do take a squiz at the full post on Geeky Habitat.
So the first thing that has been taking up my time will be one that is interesting for all of my readers that use Entrecard. For those of you who do not know what Entrecard is, it is a form of social networking cross advertising for blog authors. You will see to the right hand side of this post a little box with a yellow ‘E’ underneath it. This is the Entrecard advertisement widget that I have on my blog. When people visit they can ‘drop’ their Entrecard here to let me know that they have visited, and if they would like to, visit the current advertising blog that is above the ‘E’.
So now that I have told you what Entrecard is, there is a website that has been created with the top 300 fastest loading Entrecard blogs that have the Entrecard above the fold (i.e. you do not need to scroll to see it). The site is called PowerDropping.com. Recently the author of PowerDropping put out a request for assistance as he has found the site becoming too large to handle the maintenance.
So I set out on a mission to help out as I have loved the site thus far. I wrote a whole back end management system so that the submission, approval, and addition of new blogs to PowerDropping is now a lot more automated. I have also agreed to volunteer my time to assist in managing those submissions etc. So this week has been quite hectic with a lot of my spare time going to getting the site back up to date as it had not been updated in nearly a month.
Finally I have just moved my site over onto a new webserver which is more than twice as powerful as my old server. This means you should notice better loading times of the site, and daily scheduled maintenance should no longer cause my sites to run slowly.
So… I apologise for not being around. I have a few good things under my bonnet to post. Keep an eye out in the near future.
Stuart 
4 Comments
I was wondering who started helping out at power dropping. You did a great job! That site has improved 10 fold in a short period of time. I will keep your blog at the top of my favorites list and will be stopping back.
Thanks for helping us droppers out!
Mark from cat healths last blog post..Cats Play With Food
Hi Mark,
Thanks so much for that, it really was a first for me to play around with PHP and a mysql database, so it was great to give Walt a break and great for me to get to spread my coding wings a little.
I have to say the maintenance is a lot easier too. I just spend a few min doing it at lunch and after dinner and the rest takes care of itself.
And thanks so much, I look forward to capturing your attention often *hehe*.
Stuart
Great job!
I used the site on the past, but not anymore.. it’s just taking so much of my time to drop 300 cards. I ended up just reciprocating now
Michael Aulias last blog post..April 2008 Traffic Statistics
Hi Michael,
Thanks for that, I am the same, I just don’t even have the time to reciprocate anymore. Mind you that is because I have been severely busy getting moved over to this new server. I hope to be able to reciprocate again soon.
Stuart