Updates to talk playstation done… i think

Ok so every weekend i’ve applied updates to Talk Playstation. I think its up to the point where im happy with it apart from the design. I’m still looking at a few templates etc. First thing i did was implement the top bar with the ‘recent posts’, ‘popular post’ and ‘recent comments’ areas. The second update i applied was ‘make subscribe to RSS more...

My goals for July 1

I have set myself some goals and i have to reach them by the July 1 2008. Since my brother has been doing some stuff on talk playstation its grown into something kinda big. So the goals are:- To reach 150 RSS Subscribers (currently around the 80 mark) 20 of which must be subscribed via e-mail Last month the blog received 61,053 Visits. July 1 will see 70k So there we are. How am i going to reach them...

Why im not putting adverts on talk playstation

A few of you have e-mailed me telling me that i’m stupid for not putting adverts on talk playstation. I thought i would answer this in a blog post. It’s quite simple, i don’t want to. What i’m doing is building up a community and readership. Whats the point in pointing adverts on a blog that isn’t ‘very’ busy in traffic. Sure 61,053 Visits in a month is good but...

25 gigs of data transferred!

My hosting package restarts on the 1st of every month, it’s the 12th today and so far talkplaystation has eaten up a whopping 25gigs! I find that eating up 25gigs in 12 days is a bit heavy loaded and glad that my server can handle all this and much more! 25gigs, so thats around 2gigs a day I mentioned earlier that my hosting company upgraded my server to a new, faster one. It works like a real treat!...

another update to tp

I’ve applied another update to my Playstation blog. This time i’ve written a better ‘about us’ page so visitors know what we do, why we do it and the team, although it’s a one man team, who knows someone might want to write for us in the future. Implement the top bar Make subscribe to RSS more visible rather than e-mail  Add in a top games section in the tabber Add in an...

Grand Theft Auto IV is nearly here!

The most anticipated game this generation has almost arrived and to get me a little more excited i received this e-mail: Dear David Parkinson, Grand Theft Auto IV is nearly here! Thank you for your order ********** for Grand Theft Auto IV. The highly anticipated GTA IV game is due to be with you on Tuesday 29th April. To make sure that we get this title to everyone who ordered it for release day we have...

almost caught up

The stats on talkplaystation.com have almost caught up to daparky.com despite this blog has been online a month longer than talkplaystation. The stats for daparky.com are: 120 posts altogether 2,548 Visits (from 18th March to 17th April) 4,259 Page Views (from 18th March to 17th April) The stats for talkplaystation.com are: 119 posts altogether 11,531 Visits (from 26th March to 17th April) 16,469 Page...