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By July 2009 it has been decided to abandon presentation of Links Garden pages (FYI sets of hyperlinks subdivided into topics) which have been maintained on this website since before 2000. By 2009, new developments with search engines have made the exercise pointless. - Ed

By January 2009 work began on a extra, small "personal website" for this domain. Aspects of the webmaster's family history will be included in the material presented. By July 2009, work on this however had stalled due to pressure of other work.

Long rest for websites - unplanned

These websites from danbyrnes.com.au have had an unplanned rest period.

A destructive hard disk crash in May 2004 resulted in my stepping a long way back from everything, by way of which I took a six-months technical college course in computing for the Web.

All very interesting, but meaning, my websites have received no attention at all since May. In the interim, hits have been steadily rising, now nudging 48,000 hits per month. This figure, by the way, blows out of the water the theory that websites worth attention have to be constantly updated and given attention. An interesting finding in its own right. It seems, an entertaining website can make its own way sailing alone through cyberspace (with much help from Google and other search engines, it should be said).

And while it continued interesting, exploring techniques old and new of managing websites, there piled up in my archives a great deal of old and new material for placement on my web pages for 2005. Top-of-the-tree in terms of new information will be a project to render assistance to a migrant to Australia who has a fascinating project - which will probably become a website on this domain, temporarily, till this new website finds its shape. I assure you, you'll know this website when you see it. I'm very much looking forward to working on it.

Otherwise, the plan by late 2004 is to give the HoTM website (History of Technology of Music), a great deal of fresh attention. Also something to look forward to - Dan Byrnes

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Phone: Australia (+61) 0267 715 243
Dan Byrnes' website:
http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/
E-mail address: dan@danbyrnes.com.au

Dan Byrnes, Word Factory, Unit 4, 145 Marsh Street, ARMIDALE NSW 2350.
25 October 2005

IF you have a product, service, or idea for an international, maybe all-age audience, not offending the family market, have you considered advertising on the Internet?

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Lately my websites (Sept.-Oct 2003) have hit rates rising regularly to 28,800 per month. (to around 37,000 per month by March 2004 and then 41,000.) The netsurfing viewership is heavily international!

Just lately, I have designed an unfussy way of melding advertising content with my existing webpage contents. This means an ideal opportunity now exists for Australians to get messages to the USA and UK, to the wider English-speaking world.

At present with this new system, graphics carrying advertising material must be of a standard size - 460 wide x60px deep or 468x60px. (Or, dimensions close to this as seen in usually-used graphics software; so as to avoid distortion of any graphic propagated.)

This graphic size is to enable (a) quick placement, (b) modification (a new version) and/or, (c) deletion of graphics; to an agreed schedule. (Any mix of any at quick speed per e-mail!)

Graphics can have captions at an extra charge; and/or, be hyperlinked, if desired. But graphics anyway should preferably carry an ordinary mailing address plus an email address rendered as text on the graphic itself, not a hyperlink. (Any extra charges here due to extra time spent on extra coding, by negotiation; preferably by phone).

The basic charge for placement of advertisements is AUD$5 per day, for any number of days, as agreed beforehand. Of course, graphics can be e-mailed to me for quick handling.

Advertisements will be accepted after pre-payment, and can go onto the Internet very quickly. Right now, you're welcome to phone anytime - day or night - to find out more.

The Internet can seem a complex situation to deal with. "From Oz", I can simplify, cut through the hype and get your message overseas for as long as you like at moderate cost.

Yours sincerely,

Dan Byrnes

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For the record...

Just for the record, these websites from 3 November 2003 are joined by a new website on History and Technology of Music (HoTM for short). This will become a large website, though at what speed this will happen is hard to say. You can find the index page at: http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/hotm/

A while ago...

This set of websites - 340+ pages - began life around 17 May 2003, replacing an earlier-used domain which was decommissioned by late June. Hits began to be counted on the webpages on 1 June 2003, and page popularity rankings will be regularly monitored in the light of plans for new pages or new material to be added.
Since 17 May, a great deal of links-checking has been conducted to cull broken links, using the W3C links-validation system.
So far, almost 3000 broken links have been found and deleted, almost half of the earlier-appearing links collections. The churn rate is high! Far too high!
World-wide, and not just in Australia, it seems that the lives of websites on the Net are more ephemeral than anyone prefers to know. It also seems as if it is difficult if not impossible to sell an existing-but-interesting URL to new operators so that its content can be changed - no one is interested!
Something to lament, however, is that Australian websites on aspects of cultural life and/or tourism have been particularly hard-hit. It is hard to know what to suggest about this situation, as the links culled seem to have arisen in two blocks - from about mid-2000 to when they died - or from early-mid-2002, to when they died. Which makes it seem as though websites which managed to survive "the great dot.com bust" have since disappeared; and worse, websites newly-arising since 2002 have had much too-short a life (?).
Many such dying websites came from individuals, many from organisations. What can be suggested here? Are many Australian sites badly-planned or executed? Do they have insufficient budget? Do webmasters lose interest early? Do businesses (and government departments?) find that properly maintaining websites is too expensive a business?
What price the earlier much-vaunted anarchy and freedom of expression on the Net? It seems, a lot of Australian website designers conclude that developing a website is just a mood-to-be-in, they find that it takes real work to sustain a website? And so they later drop the matter?
It doesn't seem a good sign, but of course, congratulations to the survivors - Ed

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