B29, step 1

It's been a while since I've actually set up a new website and I'd forgotten how many things there are that need doing.

However, www.birminghamb29.com is getting there, slowly!

Birmingham, B29

After living in the B29 postcode district of Birmingham for a cumulative total of around 8 years now I've always been struck by the amazing diversity in landscape, wealth and general surroundings.

Recently an idea had been growing to get out there with my camera gear and spend a few months attempting to document this diversity of society in photographic form for all to see.

Then I had an even better idea - or I think so at least! Using the power of Flickr and, hopefully in the future, numerous other web services, I'll build a representation of B29 that anyone can contribute to and participate in.

So... here goes.

It's early days - only the Flickr group is really in existence at the moment and I haven't taken any new photos as yet - but hopefully there will be plenty more to report on soon!

For those not overly familiar with this part of Birmingham, here is the B29 area (click on map for larger image).

13 months and still going

I can't believe it's been 13 months since I wrote my first post on here - doesn't time fly when you're having fun!

Anyway, despite still having a general lack of purpose to this website (more on that soon) I thought it would be fun to spend a few minutes examining who is actually finding and looking at the site.

All information below is courtesy of StatCounter.com.

The numbers are small but increasing (slowly):



The majority spend less than 5 seconds on the site - which probably means they arrived via a search result and decided this wasn't what they were looking for:




Mentions of Flickr and various cider brands appear to bring most people to the site from a search engine.

The search keywords - latest 30 terms - that resulted in people visiting the site:

14	18.18%	james thornett
13	16.88%	fun in the sun
4	5.19%	recovering from septorhinoplasty
3	3.90%	yarlington mill cider
2	2.60%	gallery fun mature
2	2.60%	linking to flickr photos
2	2.60%	twareg
1	1.30%	gaymers cider taste
1	1.30%	amatuer photos
1	1.30%	mark simmons frcs
1	1.30%	balloon dance -dj -weddings -rc -ray -danny -streaker -decor -columns -ahches -canopy
1	1.30%	coventry fun in the sun
1	1.30%	flickr linking
1	1.30%	3-legged race
1	1.30%	pictures of morecambe fc fans at wembley
1	1.30%	php linking to flickr
1	1.30%	linking photos in flickr
1	1.30%	who is linking to my flickr pictures?
1	1.30%	yarlington mill apple
1	1.30%	mature it
1	1.30%	thatchers gold
1	1.30%	whose linking to my flickr photos
1	1.30%	football management n95
1	1.30%	funinthesun
1	1.30%	spartan cider
1	1.30%	how do i find out who's linking to my flickr photo
1	1.30%	tears of the sun-photo gallery
1	1.30%	linking to photos on flickr
1	1.30%	couples tied together
1	1.30%	day at the beach usb drive

Most people are visiting from the UK, although there's still quite a splattering of visitors from other parts of the world:



There's also plenty of the usual information on browsers, platforms, operating systems etc etc - StatCounter seems very good actually, particularly as it is free!