Well its been a while since posting but then we have not be doing nothing. We have, over the last few weeks, engaged with our developers on the modifications we had planned to take the site to beta.

These are now available for testing and the testing will be undertaken over the next week or so. We are planning a newsletter to go out and let everyone who has subscribed to the site of the changes we will be implementing. The goal is to get these out as soon as possible and these will make the site much more usable and provide additional facilities.

The traffic growth is getting there and more people are looking at the site. We do need to convert these to users of the site as the more people that post on the site the more compelling the experience becomes.

Well back to it. More updates to follow over the next week or so.

Have great evening.

Changes to the Site.

Well back in London again this weekend to see Oasis at Wembley, really looking forward to it.

In the week I looked at the site and realised there is too much text on the index page if you landed at the site. It is proving very difficult to get the message of what Vocifer8.com is about so I need to rethink the situation.

Since launching the site it has had nearly 100 unique visitors but none of them have then joined and posted anything. Obviously they as nothing that made them want to join. As a result I decided to make a quick graphic that would make it simple.

I decided that a graphic instead of text would be a much better way of getting people into the site. I will be monitoring this over the next few weeks to see what happens. If anyone reading this can come up with better ideas please comments and let me know.

Over the next week or so I will be pressing the developers to get the new functions developed as these will make a big difference to the site.

I will blog again as we progress.

This Weekend

Off topic with this entry but we the team behind Vocifer8.com are in London this weekend to see Take That at Wembley stadium. We cam up yesterday and spent the night in the West End opposite the Holland Park Hilton.

Arrived late due to the traffic on the M25 but that's always the case. When we did arrive the flat we have rented for a couple of nights is super. We had a late dinner and then bed.

One thing though is I had forgotten how noisy it can be in the City!!! Still it's exciting and the youngest loves been here.

Had a quick look at the analytical's on the site this morning and it seems that the changes I made to the keywords for the site are working. Whilst the traffic is still very low it is proving that tuning and refining the words ans phrases used does work. I will continue to monitor it every couple of days and also think of other ways to get the traffic flowing.

Will also follow up with the developers this weekend to see if they are progressing with the phase 2 development. There are some really nice features comming up including uploading media and also starting monements - more on this as we move into testing and launch of the beta.

Well that is for now - off shopping this morning and then to Wembley!!!