Originally I started the site back just before Gen Con Indy 2010 last August and was going to have a writer friend working with me.  He couldn’t make it to Gen Con last year so I wrote a few articles myself.  After that he had a new book come out and that kept him busy, so in January 2011 I decided to just scrap the old site and do the writing myself.  The thought of it intimidated me though, as I have never really fancied myself a writer.

I can’t guarantee that anyone but  me will be excited by this, but back in February when I trashed my old site, I set some goals.  Along the way I decided that if/when I hit 10,000 unique visitors  (multiple visits in a month are not counted so that is one visitor per computer counted.  Multiple people using the same computer are not counted so it could, in actuality, be higher!) in a month I would start looking at the possibility of getting sponsors and such.

The final statistics for July 2011 are in and, six months after posting the first article to my site, I broke 10,000 unique visitors with a total of 10,584 and 336,749 total hits for the month.

I also posted my 100th article last month and covered Con Bravo! an anime convention in Canada this past weekend so now I can say I have provided international coverage.  As far as readership, I know I get readers in a number of countries, Canada being one of the biggest I also get a lot of hits from Europe, Asia, and Mexico.

Earlier this year I had to upgrade my web hosting account due to the quantity of files and photos I had posted making my web space tight.

As soon as I finish this post I will be calling my web host and letting them know that I have posted this and it is time for the second upgrade this year, freeing me up to post more pics and going with unlimited bandwidth as it looked like I would exceed my bandwidth before too long if the site continues to grow as it has.

They said the upgrade will take a couple days.  During that time the site will be available but if I make any changes I would lose any updates so I won’t be posting again until they give me the word.

Gen Con 2011 starts Thursday so they said they should be able to do it before then as long as I step back and let them.  It seems appropriate as I started this site last year just before Gen Con Indy 2010 and now I am celebrating what I consider significant success just before Gen Con 2011.

So, the bottom line is I am celebrating and at the same time stepping back from the site for two days to let the techs do their thing.  I will be at Gen Con Thursday through Sunday so see you there or you can see what is happening there by checking here.

They have an awesome cosplay/masquerade, a zombie walk, and on the gaming available there, there really is no comparison!

See you soon!

Weird AKA John Collins

John N. Collins is a writer, photographer, game & coloring book designer and a bad dancer.

Any resemblance to the King John character is merely a coincidence.

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