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Happy New Year! A Period in Review... and I Hate UPS
Published January 1, 2005 in HOLIDAY
By Ryan Parsons |
CanMag will continue to grow.... |
Happy New Year everybody!! We have just entered
2005 with a bang.... except of course for a devastating tsunami that struck
the shores of various Asian countries. Anywho, here is a year in review
from CanMag. To be quite honest, CanMag has only been around for about four
months, so we will do four months in review... and I HATE UPS [united postal
service].
The Growth of CanMag
Alexa Ratings
Our ratings seem to go up by the day and we have recently dropped under
the one million mark for Alexa ratings, seating CanMag at a comfortable
746,579 position. However, we plan to get this number below 500,000 before
February. Not bad growth considering the time CanMag has been running.
Google Pagerank
Considering that google only feels it is necessary to update their google
toolbar once every 115 days now [compared to every 24 days before September],
it has been hard for CanMag to move up in Google PR or, at least toolbar
PR. While I know this statistic does not matter that much since google is
always updating, it is still nice to see. And our advertisers like seeing
it too. Currently, CanMag has only existed for one google update, which
knocked us up to a PR of 3.
UPDATE: we just moved up to a PR 5!
Site Design
If you are a frequent visitor, you definitely have witness a lot of changes
that have occurred to the site for the past couple months. The changes include
switching the left bar to dark blue from light gray, and replacing the entire
header of the site. I have also re-written each CSS file to have better
fonts displayed on the site. Each header has had a font change to match
CSS changes.
Movie Database
After writing about 180 of CanMag's first articles, I realized that each
article needs a way to establish itself for the particular film(s) it was
written for. I then decided to add a movie database to the site to give
users all the movie information they will need for all upcoming, and older,
films. The database also holds each article written for each film; making
film info navigation easy. The database lists the top viewed movies on the
left side bar; to see all the movies go to Movie
Database List.
Trailer Database
Another realization after posting so much news about the release of movie
trailers. To help our users find movie trailer links/pages easier, I added
the trailer database. The database holds all the latest trailers that have
been released. All trailers are put in order of when they were inserted
into the database.
CanMag Blog
While these pages have not gotten a lot of love yet, people are beginning
to warm up to them. Currently, the scoops
blog is a top visited page, even though it only has a couple
actual posts. Hopefully this will change as time passes.
RSS/XML Feeds
CanMag has had a good start with its XML feed. The XML document is currently
one of our most pulled documents. The XML feed will be going through some
restructuring as we polish it up and allow more articles to be listed within
the feed; along with a new image file. The XML feed will also have javascript
capabilities by February.
CanMag also offers IFrame pages that can easily be copied and pasted onto
your site. These pages are also being re-done as we remove the abstracts,
which take too much page space.
To look into each style, check out our XML
page.
CanMag: A Year in Review
Here is a brief [four months] year in review of some of the favorites, and
big events, that I have seen since the creation of CanMag..
Cinema Favorites
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
Great blow my mind film.
Sin City trailer:
Probably the coolest trailer I have ever seen...ever
Anchorman: Finally a film that
lets Ferrell let loose.
Spider-Man 2: Joins the ranks
where the sequel is actually better than the original
House of Flying Daggers:
And I thought HERO was rad!
Things I missed, but hope to catch:
Old Boy
Casshern
Hotel Rwanda
Unleashed
A Very Long Engagement
Television Hot Spots
I can't say I watch television too often. However, there are some shows
out there that keep me coming back to the couch. ABC rocks!
LOST: One of the greatest 'miniseries'
ever.
Desperate Housewives: Where
sillyness, comedy, disgust, and arousal all intertwine.
CSI Las Vegas: They are all good, but Vegas is still the
best.
Games I Play
Some of the games that wound up in my X-Box or PC...
Halo
2: I love and hate this game. I think the original Halo required
more 'skill'
Half-Life
2: I am back firing rounds on the Counter-Strike circuit,
and I couldn't be happier
LOTR:
Battle for Middle Earth: A must for any RTS gamer.
KOTOR
2: These Star Wars history games rock.
World
of Warcraft: When does a Warcraft game fail?
Why I Hate UPS- United Postal Service
I believe I have only have used UPS three times this year.
Actually, it was not a choice of my own but the company/person who was shipping
the item. Every time I have used UPS they have been at least three days
late. And, each time, their tracking claims 'ON-Time' up until the package
is late. Then it switches to 'Delivery Date Changed.' A horrible program
that comes with what I have found to be a horrible service. They have topped
off my year of 2004 by going above the call of duty by having my last package
of the year delivered 5 days late. Great service, I love it [sarcastic].
The best part is that two of the three times, the package sat in a warehouse
for 2 to 3 days about 5-8 miles away from my house. I call UPS begging to
pick up the package, but they do NOT allow pick-up except on the date they
plan on delivering your package. HORRIBLE!! I had to wait five extra days
for a package that was a ten minute drive away!
Also, do NOT use UPS around holidays either, as you have
no idea what they may do to your package; especially if it is ground. My
friend recently had a check sent through UPS near Christmas. After the check
became a few days late, the person who sent the check called UPS to ask
what was going on. They claimed that the location the check was sent to
was CLOSED on their delivery date, which it was NOT. I don't know if they
are trained to lie or what, but there was no mistake that the location was
OPEN. UPS further proceeded to say that they will try delivering the check
again after the holidays [which were not to officially begin for two days].
This meant they'd push the delivery date back almost another week. Only
after strict complaints did they decide to deliver it. HORRID!
I do a lot of online purchases/sales through online retail and ebay, and have always used USPS. The service is cheap, and I have
NEVER had a problem with them. They DO allow pick up from the post office and DID deliver packages on a timely manner. I know there is a myth
that the USPS is horrid; this just isn't true.
Anywho, had to blow that off of my chest. ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS!!! |
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