April 19, 2004,
For several years, I've left the page pretty much stagnant, with a few Chicago news updates and such. I'm now trying to update the pages. I'm putting "under reconstruction" signs on the outdated pages.
In December, I put the site under the domain name timmwood.com.
The page counters are all messed up. I know I've had at least 50,000 hits to the main page. I'll try to fix them soon.
Redesign work is planned for the site.
May 6, 1999
It has been a long time since I updated this page. Here's a summary:
At some point in late 1998, I broke up my site into three pages: a Chicago/music page, a writings page, and a rocketry page.
The main Chicago/music page continues to attract visitors, having recently exceeded the 17,000 mark for total site visitors.
Recent additions include an MP3 page with several of my original songs/recordings featured.
August 12: Total recorded have now reached 6,024. The Chicago page is over 1,800, with the Terry Kath page next at more than 1,300 hits. Several other pages with more than 300 hits include the Mystics page and the Chicago pictures page.
July 27: Added Gideon Bible story and redid Faith page. Since last update, I've added pictures of Chicago concert at chipix.html and review of show at chinash.html. Total hits have exceeded 5,000. I've added the counters page to help me keep track of the durned things.
June 27 Long time, no update. I'm up to 3,521 recorded hits, with Chicago-related pages generated most of those numbers. The Chicago page has 1,157 hits, with the Terry Kath page around 600 now. A page about Kath's Chicago-area band The Mystics has had 156 hits in less than a week - definitely my fastest hit generator ever. Since the last update, I've added CDNow links to the Chicago pages and Amazon links to the audio electronics page. Other additions include a Guitar Gallery page.
March 30: The hits just keep a comin'. Have had 42 new hits on the Chicago page in the last week for a total of 422. The Terry Kath page is up to 213 hits, an increase of 39 in the past week. My rocket page has had just four new hits in a week, while the home page is up to 293, an increase of 18 in one week. Chicago albums page is up just 5 in one week. I'm trying to update news on the Chicago page fairly regularly, as often as I have new info. The other pages on which I have counters are pretty much stagnant. Thanks to my readers for their support.
March 23: The search engine robots have hit my site a couple of times. It will be interesting to see if my hit count increases significantly.
Speaking of hits, my Chicago page leads the pack with 380 and the Terry Kath page has 174. My home page has 275, the rocket page has 135 and the Chicago albums page has 56. Other pages have fairly small numbers, mainly because I haven't done much to promote them. The hit total for pages with counters now is at 1,053.
I've added two concerts to the Chicago concert review page.
Jan. 27: Finished and uploaded major re-design of home page. Now it takes forever to download just like everyone else's page! Counter update: Rocket index, 82; Chicago albums, 17; Chicago, 167; Jim Wright, 8; Audio Electronics, 5; Terry Kath, 94.
Jan. 16: Counter update: Rocket index, 49; Chicago Albums, 7; Chicago, 100; Jim 'Wright, 8; Audio Electronics, 4; Terry Kath, 57; Home, 136. Tried to do fancy new index page, but it didn't look at all on the web like it did in PageMill. Put old index back, and went back to the drawing board.
Jan. 15: Counter update: Rocket Index 34; Chicago Album page, 4; Chicago home page, 95; Jim Wright Page, 8; Audio Electronics, 3; Terry Kath page, 57. Added rocketry links page. Added Harlem Globetrotters page. Added pictures to audio electronics page.
Jan. 14: Added Intelcube
Jan. 13: Added Chicago albums page.
Jan. 12: Added images1 subdirectory; added photo to Terry Kath FAQ file. Counter report: Home 114, Rocket Index 12, Chicago 82, Jim Wright 8, Audio Electronics 3,Terry Kath, 55. Since Jan. 8, I have tried to register my page with several search engines and other promotional services.
Jan. 8: Counters are at home, 101; Terry Kath, 40: Jim Wright, 8; Chicago, 51; and rocket page, 5. Re-did Terry Kath index page, added Press and Concerts sections to Chicago page.
Jan. 7: Added items to Chicago and Terry Kath pages.
Jan. 6: Counter update as of 8 a.m.: 86 to main page, 39 to Chicago page, 30 to Kath page, 6 to Wright page and 3 to Rocketry page (all rocketry page visits are mine). Added story to B24 page.
Jan. 5, 1998: Added Jim Wright, Christianity and Rocketry pages. Counter update: As of late Jan. 2, 1998, there were 72 hits on the home page, 32 on the Chicago page and 24 on the Terry Kath page.
Dec. 31, 1997: Cleaned up B24 page, fixed Chicago home page. total visitors up to 57 at 7:30 a.m., of which 35 are my own hits.
Dec. 30, 1997: Re-worked home page slightly, added Chicago and Terry Kath pages.
Dec. 26, 1997: Added "testpage;" updated e-mail link on index page to Geocities address; failed test of javascript on test page.
Dec. 24, 1997: Added columns to Various Writings section. Added this "What's New" page.
Dec. 23, 1997: Overhauled index page and some others, decided to keep everything on PageMill as much as possible.
Dec. 19, 1997: Joined Geocities and uploaded first items on page. Used newspaper's laptop computer in my basement late at night.
