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Old 07-06-2009, 12:58 PM Personal blog: www.itscooper.co.uk
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Hi guys,

Just launched my blog @ www.itscooper.co.uk

It's my personal blog that I'm using to talk about things that interest me. I talk mainly about teaching and technology, but also like to post my photos somewhere. So these are my main three categories.

I've tried to organise the site so that it's easy to use. I wanted it to feel more like a standard website as opposed to a blog (hence the categories being in the main menu).

The blog is likely to be slow at the mo, since it's on my own server at my house in the UK. I was thinking of upgrading to a better server. Do you think it's too slow as it is?

I've never written a blog before, and I know I've probably got some work to do on my writing style. What do you think about how I've written the few posts so far?

I've used a wordpress theme that I like, but is fairly popular. I've modified it to a huge extent to try and make it my own. Even though it's a set theme, I have a lot of experience in programming PHP, and can therefore modify most things if I put my mind to it. So feel free to suggest anything I should change about the layout/structure of the site.

Any and all comments will be greatly received.
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Old 07-06-2009, 06:23 PM Re: Personal blog: www.itscooper.co.uk
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Weird... everyone who's had a look down my end got it to load.

I was expecting it to be slow... are u sure it wasn't just taking a while?

If not could I have some info that might help me understand why it's not loading... like your browser for example.

Thanks for having a go
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Weird... everyone who's had a look down my end got it to load.

I was expecting it to be slow... are u sure it wasn't just taking a while?

If not could I have some info that might help me understand why it's not loading... like your browser for example.

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Old 07-07-2009, 11:46 AM Re: Personal blog: www.itscooper.co.uk
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Thanks,

Google Analytics is still reporting visitors so it's definitely not affecting everyone. It's a bit of a major issue so I need to get this sorted.

Is there anyone else who is having the same problem with my site? I'm wondering if it's affecting visitors from the US.

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Old 07-26-2009, 09:13 PM Re: Personal blog: www.itscooper.co.uk
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Hi guys,

I've just switched to a better server, and I'd like to know whether it's doing the job better.

If it's loading okay then I'd appreciate any comments with reference to my original post.

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Old 08-24-2009, 07:47 PM Re: Personal blog: www.itscooper.co.uk
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Hi, Very nice site. Clean and well laid out. The only issue is it was very slow to load for me (over 30 seconds on a 12mps connection). The first page was especially slow.
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looks really nice,but takes a while to load.
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Site loads now. Nice and fast too!

And I love the layout, is it one of those portfolio type of themes? What's the name of it?
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